If I was spending £25,000 on rent and a further £20,000 on rates, I’d be pretty frustrated if a trendy bus serving better food rocked up outside every week. I’d complain to the council and get their lazy, rusty, civil servant wheels in motion.

Indeed I know someone that attempted to setup a hotdog stall on the strip and failed because he tried to do it properly and came up against commercial objections.

The funniest thing about all this of course is how the democratically elected councillor can’t articulate the concerns properly and instead comes across as a corrupt, scruffy turd.

Spend a bit of money on getting some decent PR. You’re very good at coming across as a prick, which I suspect turns voters right off you. Change that picture for a start…

There are plenty of events where he can serve his food, it shouldn’t be one rule for him

Costa coffee operated within Bristol without correct planning permission for months, your council had no objections to this despite very strong objections from local people and traders. Now you’re opposing an independent vendor who operates outside of a Costa branch. Have Tesco or Costa complained about Chomp? No. Have any of the residents lodged an official complaint? No.

You talk about the intrusive smells from Chomp yet neither yourself nor Sally Holt felt they were bad enough to be included in your objections to the council.

Sally Holt clearly states her objections are based on issues raised from her place of work, not her home. Again none of the issues raised are bad enough that she complains of her home life being intruded on.

You say residents have complained to you yet not a single resident was bothered enough to lodge a complaint to the council. The van is there for a single day a week. I’d dare say that the local construction traffic, which starts much earlier, is as much if not more intrusive to sleeping children.

I regularly walk and cycle through the area. It’s depressing. Boarded up commercial units and anonymous chains that don’t reflect the actual vibrancy that Bristol trades on.

Adam

Also I’m trying to put myself in Sally Holt’s situation as you suggested. Actually her objection is based on the proximity of her workplace, not her home, and she doesn’t mention the noise or smell nuisance. Frankly it would have to be quite a loud generator to be heard from 10 mins walk away anyway.

The reasons for objection she does list are so demonstrably ridiculous they cannot not be taken seriously.

You say she also objected to Tesco. If this is the case then I wonder which shops she is trying to protect from the ‘unfair competition’. There are no other shops there.