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Fast food exclusion zone around schools
Bristol mayor George Ferguson is being urged create an exclusion zone around schools for takeaways and limit the number of fast food outlets in one area.
The call comes from Labour councillors, who tonight will also urge the Mayor to intervene and stop a new McDonald’s being built on Fishponds Road.
Cllr Mhairi Thelfall (Labour, Eastville) wants the Mayor to create a 400m exclusion zone around schools for hot food takeaways and place restrictions on the number of fast food takeaways that can operate along a single high street.
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“I’ll be asking the Mayor to implement these restrictions as planning guidelines for the whole of Bristol. Elsewhere 21 other councils in England and Wales have similar policies in order to combat obesity and empower people to make healthy choices,” says Cllr Threlfall.
She said that Bristol’s own health and wellbeing strategy states “that we must ensure neighbourhoods are planned and designed to support healthy lifestyles”.
“We want the Mayor to adopt these planning restrictions- for the future health of all Bristolians,” added Cllr Threlfall.
This suggestion will be put formally at the Mayor’s Question Forum tonight.
Campaigners against a new McDonald’s for Fishponds Road will also be lobbying the council when it meets this evening.
Hundreds of people have previously marched against the opening of McDonald’s in Fishponds. More than 1,500 people have signed an epetition against the restaurant.
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