Fresh plans for cafe at controversial Stirling takeaway premises

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Premises which housed a controversial city takeaway, which started operating during lockdown without planning permission, could become a cafe and sandwich bar under fresh plans.Applicant Richard Wilmot is proposing that the sandwich bar and cafe replace ChurrosNChill which began operating in spring 2021, along with neighbouring Black Rooster Peri Peri at the former Falcon Bar premises at 45 Borestone Crescent.Black Rooster - at the third time of asking – was granted planning approval last month.ChurrosNChill however has ceased operating in recent weeks and the premises are currently closed.Upstairs neighbours Don Ritchie and Carol Ann Marshall, who have lived there since the 1990s, had complained of being regularly disturbed by a loud rumbling sound from a large flue and customers shouting in the rear car park - where there is a picnic style seating area - as well as cooking smells.Two retrospective planning applications - one submitted in July 2021 for the subdivision and change of pub use to restaurant and takeaway, installation of flues, and a second dated February 2022 encompassing a restaurant and takeaway, flue and air conditioning condenser - were turned down.At one point planners had stated that the operation 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’ and that the proposal was contrary to the Local Development Plan policy relating to supporting town centres as well as site policy.Stirling Council initiated enforcement action which was upheld after an appeal to the Scottish Government DPEA.