Battering by scaffolding



An award winning fish and chip shop is in danger of closing because of an invasion of scaffolding.

 

Dolphin Restaurants has served up some of the best seaside food in the country for the last 25 years.

 

Now conservation work opposite the restaurant on Scarisbrick Avenue makes it look like the road is closed, owner Bob Handley says the council has stopped him putting up a sign telling people he is open for business.

 

He said: "I've been running this restaurant along with my father since 1982. We asked the council for a board on the corner of Scarisbrick Ave and Lord Street but they have told me no. This will be ongoing for

over a year and people just won't walk past the scaffolding."

 

Mr Handley added: "I normally employee 12-15 staff but at the moment it's the opposite, I'm laying people off."

 

Mr Handley says he has spoken to the conservation department at the council but they wrote to him saying the highways department won't allow a sign.

 

A spokesman for Sefton Council said: "Once the refurbishment work is finished, Scarisbrick Avenue will be greatly enhanced with a once derelict building and seven shopfronts restored to their former glory.

 

"We are aware of Mr Hanley's concerns and are working with the developer to ensure that people can get to and use businesses along Scarisbrick Avenue while this major project is underway.

 

"We have a duty to enforce national legislation and make sure pavements are safe for all pedestrians so it was decided Mr Hanley could not put up a sign near the entrance to Scarisbrick Avenue on Lord Street."

 



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I think the usual practice is to contact the scaffolding conpany and ask if you can attatch a sign to it............

As the attatched sign is not on the highway theres nothing the council can do about it....................

That takes brains though duckie ... plus its good press to bitch in the local rag as it will draw customer's in.