NEWS RELEASE

From the Labour Councillors on Bristol City Council

for immediate release, 19th January, 2015

Keep Fast Food Takeaways Away from Schools say Labour

Labour councillors are to ask that the Mayor intervene to stop a new fast food burger
store being built on Fishponds Road.
Cllr Mhairi Thelfall 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.
Ill 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, Labour, Eastville.
This question will be put formally at the Mayors Question Forum tomorrow (Tuesday).
Campaigners against a new Macdonalds for Fishponds Road will be lobbying the
council when it meets on Tuesday evening. Its been supported by hundreds of parents
and others from the local community who are against this fastfood outlet in their area.
Bristols own health and wellbeing strategy states that we must ensure neighbourhoods are planned and designed to support healthy lifestyles. I want the
Mayor to adopt these planning restrictions, for the future health of all Bristolians, says
Cllr Threlfall.

Cllr Mhairi Threlfall - 07702 000 192

or Labour councillors office - 0117 922 2013 or 07957 474865

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