Stoke-on-Trent's headteachers to have say over new takeaways near schools

“Come on John King ." We have no takeaways in our vicinity". As previously stated how about Hanford chip shop or Wrights Pies or the Co Op.
Get a grip man you may only be acting headmaster but you will never get an oscar for your performance!











chipn sho”

“Whether it makes for good or bad diet (all takeaway food is not unhealthy) it is not for headteachers, councillors or any other bigoted people to dictate what people should eat or not eat. Its called freedom of choice and teachers should concetrate on educating, you know that job they are supposed to do, rather than worry about what pupils are doing out of school or what they eat for their lunch. That way exam results might actually improve and children might learn more.”

“John King should have a walk to Hanford Chip shop at lunch time and he may be surprised to find that Trentham High pupils are allocated their own queue so that the other customers are not waiting behind them. He could also take a bin bag with him so that he could collect all his pupils litter on his return journey.
This happens every week day!”

“The 'Big Society' is certainly stamping its big feet.

Watching the kids turn out of the Brownhills academy and walking through Tunstall every day, it's a question which kid isn't holding a bag of chips or a pie.
Shops love the 3:00pm whistle.

We shouldn't underestimate the lifeskills of children and young adults in their attempts to thwart the 400m hurdles put in place between them and chips and gravy-to go.

I wonder if at El-Alemein, Montgomery fed the eight army on chips before the return match with Rommel?
Perhaps not. Maybe there was a 400m exclusion zone to keep up morale and to sustain the desert rats winning edge.”

“Warren but it does deal with other. Area like clusters of takeaways town centres crime anti social behaviour. School zones are just one part.

Go have a read and then you'll be in position to use it in futute”

“No, its good Ian, as long as you are in a 400 meter radius of a school, and its a good start point, but we need to look at all areas, taking into account the number of Take Outs in an area not just near a school. Many of the Take Outs people want stopping would not open in school hours as anyway, what happens in a case like that when this could be challenged. We need a way of saying "Look, we have god knows how many food outlets now there, so thanks but no thanks." It's in no way going to improve diet.

When I was at school, a Fish and Chip van use to came and park right outside the school gates at lunch time and the local pub use to flog pies and crisps and all sorts, and an Ice Cream van use to pitch up at 4 o'clock as well at let out time, do its always gone on.”

“Warren : you ask what good is this, it will give extra power to local residents fighting yet more take always something I thought you d welcome with open arms.

Suggest you go read the spg being proposed and then comment if good or bad and send your views into Cllr reynolds”

“Will headteschers have a say on a chip shop being open when the school turns out at 3:00pm?
Will headteshers everywhere have their head in their hands knowing that chips are being sold at 9:00pm and within the exclusion zone area of the schools?

When our new chip shop opened up (and welcomed by the entire community as an asset), every chip shop in within 5 miles put a complaint in to the council.

Everyone laughed.”

“Tony, simple, they might hold some sway on the kids, but non at all on parents. If mum don't fancy cooking Jamie's latest 15 minute meal for there little ones, she's off down the chippie or the local MacDonald's or its Pot Noodles and Wonder Loaf all round. If that's happening, and it is, what good is this.”

“Redtone: Schools is not the reasoning behind the New Planning Guideline, just the emphasis the Sentinel decided to report on. Its about being able to restrict number of Takeaways as at present there are little planning reasons for refusal”