Crab shack approved near popular beach

A seafood street trader has been granted permission to operate on a beachside road in Cornwall.

Mike Lewin, who owns Crab Shack, had applied to operate on Queen Mary Road near Falmouth's Gyllyngvase beach.

Falmouth Town Council had recommended refusal because the council felt there were "already too many traders along Queen Mary Road with noisy generators".

However Cornwall Council's street trading committee agreed to grant the application and said there were no concerns raised by the local authority's highways or environment departments.

Responding to the town council's concerns, Mr Lewin said: "I don't want to work with a noisy generator."

He said the business had looked at a range of generators with a favoured inverter generator running at a maximum of 56 dB.

He said if there were problems, the business could put a box around it to reduce noise further, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

The road, which is designated as a street trading area, is already home to two previously approved mobile food and drink businesses.

Mr Lewin, who has worked in catering for 35 years, used to run The Lookout restaurant in Falmouth.

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