A kebab shop’s new pavement shelter is being investigated by the council – but the owner says his customers love it.
Nayeb, in Church Road, near the Grand Avenue traffic lights, put up the shelter earlier this year where it had previously had outdoor seating.
It does not have planning permission and, after complaints, Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning enforcement officers are investigating.
Eskandar Hajezadah said: “We used to have a patio there and a little garden, but it was not really practical there, especially in the winter when it was raining and windy.
“We always needed more space for people to eat.
“Everything is openable. The windows come down. The roof goes off. I don’t know what the issue is with this.
“We are quite a busy takeaway and our customers have told us this is a good thing. Anyone who comes in is really happy about it. They say it’s a brilliant idea.
“The hairdresser next door says they don’t have an issue with it.
“I didn’t really know that we needed planning permission because it was already part of the shop. We just made it something better so people could sit there and eat.
“If I knew it would upset people, I wouldn’t do it.
“We’ve had someone from two different council departments coming in taking pictures. They didn’t have an issue with it. They just told us to contact them and we are waiting for them to let us know what we have to do.
“It’s not on the pavement. It’s the land for the shop that we build this thing on.
“Before we had mostly men coming in and we asked them why don’t you bring your girlfriends. They said they really love your food but the women are always saying it’s small and busy. It’s a men’s club.
“But now we have got more seating, we got a lot more families coming in.”
A council spokesperson said: “We are aware of the new covered sitting area on the pavement outside 91 Church Road and are investigating it as a possible breach of planning rules.”
looks hideous
Bet you’ve never even seen it. LOL!
Leave them alone ffs
Leave them alone ffs go clean up Bella and save the Madera Terraces instead of Valley Gardens 3
Bins overflowing dog poop weeds Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
Give them people an inch and they will take a mile,it looks hideous and it brings the whole of that area looking like a Turkish bazaar.
It definitely looks more appealing and creates a bit of an atmosphere which should be great for business but without the council permission it was a risk too far
Still I hope that it stays on
But the other restaurants will want the same privilege
Always pushing boundaries
Not really, it would be if it were outside their own property, but it’s in their front patio! :o)
Looks awful, really brings down the area. Plus ignorance of planning law is no excuse – people need to check before they build anything. And is it really necessary for the owner to talk in such sexist ways – ‘male customers bringing girlfriends’? No single people, gays and lesbian couples, etc visiting the place?
It looks fine and no worse than others. Leave them alone they are just trying to make a living.
I’m actually more annoyed at all the nearby food shops who put tons and tons of chairs, signs and barriers on the pavement so there’s actually nowhere to walk. Especially when theres a bus stop across as well
Iam sick off all the food shops and even more angry that thay just went ahead with putting it up it’s a disgrace how do thay think thay are there not ubove the law
Of course we can’t just plonk structures wherever and whenever they feel like along streets. If we did then the entire country would look like a shanty town. This is a blight on the street and the owners are taking the p.
The pavement is public space and can’t just be taken over by a business.
Where would it end? With businesses just commandeering all of the pavement with no sanction?
Read the article. It’s on their property, NOT the pavement
Such pathetic excuses from the take-away. Regulations are there for the safety and qualify of life for the majority and not to impede businesses. Just follow the rules like everyone else.
Can’t see a problem
Because it wasn’t done with planning permission. There’s a few things that could be unsafe about the errection, and some health and safety compliances it needs to achieve.
It always seemed strange that businesses could extend their budiness on to a pavement?
But if I’m correct, a business premises does extend outwards of about 3ft onto the pavement? Probrably for things like greengrocers, but has since been used as cheap form of extension.
Personally, I don’t see a probrably e except in the wording that this is a takeaway and this is now a restaurant, which implies a change of use of an establishment?
The owners have form from being fined for employing illegal workers to very low hygiene standards. I wouldn’t eat there.
I past by NAYAB and had a look inside the place I was welcomed with a big smile and my first impression was this is the best place to go now for business lunches and Christmas parties in fact when I asked for the availability over Christmas it was nearly all booked up already so I offered my services to Dj there and they said they would confirm it near the time of course I have the relevant db meter and will advise environmental health experts on the best noise management strategies.
So you are financially biased to say positive things.
Six on western road is more of a hindrance to be honest, you have to walk in traffic to get past it. Council won’t be bothering them will they! This change has caused no problems
Tu quoque is not a strong argument at all.
Really can’t see the problem here, it’s there space. More useable, less noise, no problems with gulls or pigeons, no mess, taking up no more room than before. Give business like this a chance to make a positive difference for anyone who who might want to eat there
They didn’t go through the proper process is the problem. And there are certain regulations and safeties that need to be considered. If they went through the correct process successfully, then absolutely fine. But they didn’t.
I have looked again at the photograph I took and, without claiming to rival Brassai, at least on this occasion, I like the inadvertent composition. The three figures, one as a reflection. Hove to and Fro, I shall call it.
As for the shack, its owner’s assertions prompt a memory of the chain restaurant, whatever it was called, which painted its branch on the corner of New Road and North Street in its corporate green rather than the regulation white. As part of a retrospective Application, it said that its pizza dough is organic as if this were a Planning consideration. What one might call stretching a point. It was told to paint it white again.
As for the shack, it will surely be ordered down, as was the one outside the chip shop on Portland Road near Westbourne Street. Even if the section of a sidewalk is part of a business’s curtilage (great word), it does not bring the right to build upon it.
How is this place even allowed to stay open, their hygiene standards are non existent.
Looks hideous and needs to come down
https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/en-GB/1425202