Drive-through could be built in A52 village

THE HOT FOOD VENUE WOULD ALSO HAVE VEHICLE CHARGING

- By EDDIE BISKNELL

PLANS for an A52 drive-through takeaway and electric vehicle charging hub have been submitted for a Derbyshire village.

The project, from Zest Eco, would see a drive-through hot food takeaway and a 24-space electric vehicle charging hub built off Victoria Avenue in Ockbrook, alongside the A52.

If approved by Erewash Borough Council in the next few months, the facilities would sit on the boundary between Ockbrook and Borrowash, less than a mile east of Derby.

This application comes a month after a project for two fast food takeaways were rejected by a Government inspector at Bostocks Lane, next to the M1/A52 Sandiacre Interchange, three miles to the east.

In that scheme, inspector J Somers flagged that councils can reject fast-food takeaways within walking distance of schools or places where young people congregate - where the sites are also out of town centres.

The Sandiacre scheme was to see a fast-food facility built 500 metres from Friesland School.