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Bad news - car tyre repair opening on Stroud Green Road
A car tyre repair shop is slated to open on Stroud Green Road - this is gross. It's right between two cafes with open air seating outside (Brick and Olive & 89Social), on a busy main road, bus route, near a bus stop, along a street of shops and cafes and restaurants much used by pedestrians, families and children. Can you imagine the effect of dozens of cars constantly pulling up (perhaps crossing the pavement?), the obstruction, the noise, the car exhaust fumes, the visual disbenefit, the chilling effect on the street scene? This is nuts. It's something for a back street, not a high street.
It's on the Islington side. Work has already begun on the conversion - drilling and hammering - though I wonder if they actually have planning consent. Can this be stopped? Does anyone know how to put pressure on the council? A neighbourhood campaign?
It's on the Islington side. Work has already begun on the conversion - drilling and hammering - though I wonder if they actually have planning consent. Can this be stopped? Does anyone know how to put pressure on the council? A neighbourhood campaign?
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Thank you for your post. As @Flo_williamson has mentioned, we haven't given planning permission for this and our planning team is investigating.
Looks like Sam the tyre man is an illegal.
"There is still an open investigation. Until the premises opens for business there isn’t technically a breach, but it becoming a tyre shop is a change of use which does require planning permission. As far as I’m aware, still no planning permission has been applied for.
"I’ve also been working with council officers on the parking issue. The land immediately in front of the shop is private (up to the point the cafe and shops on that front have items out), so parking enforcement can’t issue a PCN. Officers are keeping an eye on the issue raised."
Thank you for your enquiry regarding the above address and the refurbishment works in relation to a proposed use as a tyre service shop/garage. This proposed use requires planning permission, and I can advise an application has not been submitted and would not be approved should one be submitted.
I have been in contact with new leaseholder, freeholder and agent advising the proposed use requires planning permission and would not be granted.
I will take appropriate enforcement action should my warnings be ignored.
Kind Regards
Andrew
Andrew J Stuart
Planning Officer (Enforcement)
Planning Enforcement Team
Community Wealth Building
London Borough of Islington
2nd Floor - Islinaton Town Hall