Cork City to crack down on location of fast food outlets

A crackdown to control the future development of hot-food takeaways and fast-food restaurants across Cork City is on the cards.

Councillors have adopted a new planning policy in the city’s draft development plan which will govern the location of these kinds of outlets between 2015 and 2021 — the lifespan of the new city development plan.

And a new set of criteria has been drawn up against which future planning applications for fast-food outlets will be assessed. The new policy was discussed briefly at Monday’s city council meeting, during which a raft of amendments were made to the draft plan, which is now set to go on public display.