Enforcement action being taken over two Stirling city takeaways
dailyrecord.co.ukFormal enforcement action is being sought over two Stirling takeaways which have been operating without planning permission.
The Borestone Crescent takeaways’ upstairs neighbours, Don Ritchie and Carole Ann Marshall – who have lived in their flat since the 1990s – had complained that their lives had been turned upside down following the conversion of the Falcon Bar into Black Rooster Peri Peri and ChurrosNChill.The couple’s concerns include the noise from a large flue, cooking smells and rowdy behaviour from customers at a rear dining area following the installation of seats and tables underneath their terrace.Black Rooster Peri Peri and ChurrosNChill have been operating from lunchtime to around 10pm seven days a week.Following complaints from the couple, the retrospective planning application – comprising subdivision and change of use from public house (sui generis) to class three restaurant and takeaway, installation of two flues and the formation of an outdoor seating area – was lodged with Stirling Council in July last year.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.That application was rejected in December in a delegated decision by officials stating it would ‘have a harmful impact on the reasonable residential amenities’ on the couple’s Borestone Crescent flat and to the wider local area citing ‘cooking odour, noise and disturbance.’Following the decision Mr Ritchie spoke of his “relief” as the operations had “a severe negative impact” on the couple.Black Rooster franchise operator Richie Wilmot senior had said last year: “We want to make our neighbours’ lives as comfortable as possible, while at the same time our business continuing to trade.”The Observer has previously contacted Mr Wilmot for
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