My sympathies to the good people of North Shields who would like to have access to a bakery.
Nanny doesn't like the idea that Greggs has applied to move into a vacant unit in the Collingwood Centre, and is doing her best to ban it.
Wendy Burke, the borough's director of public health, is quoted by
The Chronicle:
"Two
thirds of adults and one third of 10-11 year olds adults in the borough
are either overweight or obese.
A key priority both nationally
and locally is to encourage healthy eating. This is incredibly difficult
to do if we continue to allow developments that promote the sale of
food high in fat, calories and salt within our commercial centres and in
the immediate vicinity of our local schools and leisure centres, as an
increasing proportion of people consume food outside the home."
She
added that a new Greggs would make it easy for youngsters to buy
"cheap, highly calorific food not only for breakfast, but also for lunch
and tea".
She is seeking to blame obesity on a chain of bakers!
Sadly a petition with 73 signatures has been submitted
against the development, citing concerns over childhood obesity, cooking
smells, loss of residential amenity, vehicle noise, loss of visual
amenity, litter and vermin problems. A further 33 letters of objection
have also been sent to the council.
Coun Peter Earley, cabinet
member for children, young people and skills, said in his objection that
the a Greggs would be "
detrimental to health and wellbeing of children
and young people who attend nearby schools and would be situated in an
area where there is already a significant issue with rising levels of
childhood obesity".
All of this is of course utter bollocks:
1 Obesity cannot be blamed on a particular chain of bakers
2 Greggs is a bakers, not a "fast food" outlet.
3 It's not the role of the state to dictate what people may or may not eat.
4 The unit is vacant, if these cretins had their way it would remain forever vacant and be ablight upon the high street!
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