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Northycote Farm Cafe

We, the undersigned, petition the council to Review and reverse the ill advised, unwelcome and costly decision to change the cafe tenant at Northycote Farm to a council run operation.

The cafe has served local people and other visitors very well for many years and is an intrinsic part of the community. Local people have commented about this ill advised idea on numerous occasions and another petition I believe is being run on Facebook demonstrating the negative feelings generated by this inexplicable decision.

The cafe serves traditional and vale-for-money food and nearly all visitors use it at some point. I understand that the idea is to change it into some sort of 'Bantock Park' style cafe and can assure you that it will seriously reduce the income generated as locals will simple not be able to afford the higher prices.

So here is a question, instead of managing assets like this by way of using a calculator, why not look at the negative impact that this will have on the long term income form this cafe site?

Another view of this service is that it is just that, a service for the use of the local community set at a price we can afford. We do not need another Costa, Starbucks style cafe in this area - wait, there isn't one, why? Because retail analysts know that in this area that local people will not pay inflated prices for metro style food and drinks.

I appreciate that funds need to be generated due to that lack of support by this government but would respectfully ask all counsellors to seriously reconsider this decision.

Started by: David Halstead

This ePetition ran from 15/09/2016 to 19/05/2017 and has now finished.

107 people signed this ePetition.