Catering vans

[saleen836]

Hopefully this is the right section..
My partner lives on a not so good estate, one of her neighbours has taken it upon themself to purchase a catering van and operate it from their front garden!
Anyone know who I could contact to find out if all license/paperwork is in order? I'm guessing my local council but unsure which department.

[changingman]

saleen836 said:

Anyone know who I could contact to find out if all license/paperwork is in order? I'm guessing my local council but unsure which department.

How about starting off with the person operating the catering van

[sherman]

Phone the council and ask for the enviromental health department.

[KevF]

Steve,

Are the burgers any good?

Kev

[Westy Pre-Lit]

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[Sam_68]

I'd start with the Planning Department, as he's operating a business from home (you don't necessarily need to build anything to breach planning use). Their Enforcement Officer will have contacts in the licencing and environmental health sections, is appropriate, too.

[UpTheIron]

saleen836 said:

My partner lives on a not so good estate, one of her neighbours has taken it upon themself to purchase a catering van and operate it from their front garden

Operate as in run the business - i.e. parking the vehicle at residential premises, or operate as in actually flipping burgers and serving customers.

If the former there is probably little you can do but will depend upon the original planning / covenants for the property.

If they are actually selling burgers to customers from their garden then I'd move...if the area has enough people living there to buy then you don't want to be living there!

[saleen836]

The catering van is being used to sell food from the front garden, will make a call to the local council on Monday.
Thanks for the replies

[netherfield]

Won't last long,some little fker will either come and pinch the van or set fire to it.

[pokethepope]

buy a catering van yourself, undercut him by 10%, wait for him to go out of business.

[plumAJP]

planning department should have been notified about change of use on residential property (i doubt they would get permission for this) so he will be trading without permission.

the van needs to be licenced by the food safety department, and the caterer needs to have at least basic food hygiene, i doubt any of this exisits so he is contravening the regs there.

totally illegal so call the council 1st thing monday. he could effectively be food poisoning the estate if he/she has no idea about temps/handling/storage etc.