Two vacant shop units on Cross Lane in Salford are to be turned into a hairdressers and a fish and chip shop despite strong objections from local residents.
This week Salford City Council passed plans to bring back into use the two units, on the ground floor of the Windsor Mini Market at the junction with Culverwell Drive.
The hairdressers will be open seven days a week from 10am to 6pm, with the takeaway open two hours later, also seven days a week.
The applicant says five full-time jobs will be created by the new stores.
But 31 local residents signed a petition against the plans, citing problems with traffic, fears over increased litter from the fish and chip shop and plans already in place for restricted parking on Culverwell Drive.
Councillors Gina Reynolds and John Warmisham expressed serious reservations about planning permission being granted, given that there are already “major problems” with parking in the area “which are proving difficult to resolve”.
The same applicant, Mrs Zenab Bibi, had plans passed in March 2015 for eight one-bedroom flats in the derelict Paddock pub just 500 yards up the road.
Cross Lane has been devoid of shops since the early 1980s; what was once a bustling thoroughfare with butchers, undertakers, printers, toy shops and its own vibrant marketplace quickly declined to what it is today – a commuter cut through boasting only a McDonalds restaurant.
Watch: Rare colour footage of Cross Lane in 1960s
