Redbridge Council has been urged to take motion over “the most unhealthy street in the borough”.
Concerned resident Linda Ray says the only way to get a salad in Ilford Lane is in a burger and fears schoolchildren haven’t any wholesome choices out there.
After seeing that one other two takeaways are due to open to add to the 39 already buying and selling on the mile-long street – one each 50m in the event that they had been unfold out – she contacted council chief Jas Athwal.
Ms Ray, 49, who has lived in the space since 1987, stated: “You can’t get a salad in Ilford Lane until it’s in a burger.
Salad is usually added to takeaway burgers.
“After faculty, all you see is children with hen and chips and, when you’re by no means going to cease that, you don’t see that in High Street, Wanstead, or in Snaresbrook.
“I do imagine it’s like a class system. Not many individuals object as a result of we’re fairly a transient inhabitants or as a result of folks have no idea how to. That’s why now we have bought so many issues.
“It have to be cheaper [for companies) to be down right here however it’s to our detriment. We ought to depart burgers for the excessive street.”
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Ms Ray stated she was notably involved given the excessive charges of diabetes in Redbridge, with virtually one in 10 residents affected by the situation in 2019.
On Twitter, responding to the imminent opening of a new takeaway, Burger Base, she added: “Does Ilford Lane want one other quick meals bar? This is the most unhealthy street in Redbridge.
“Jas Athwal was knowledgeable about this and nothing has been carried out. Ilford Lane is being introduced to its knees by mismanagement.”
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Redbridge Council can’t management which companies open in the borough until they require a licence, for instance to keep open later than regular or to promote alcohol.
Ilford Lane takeaway BIM’s lastly gained the proper to keep open later in December, after months of conferences with the council and being fined £1,000 for breaking lockdown curfew.
Redbridge Council was contacted for remark however has but to reply.
