Despite remaining tightlipped on exactly what business might take up the new takeaway space at the Longstore Locale, the CI Coop has confirmed it will be a pizza place.
Its planning application for a change of use has been approved meaning the Coop can reduce the size of its Longstore shop, and open the new takeaway on the same site.
The plans revealed that a change in the layout of the Longstore Localé would free up space at the front of the shop – facing St George’s Esplanade and the sea – that would be used for a takeaway kitchen, serving area, and customer seating.
That work has been approved, meaning the Coop store will be reduced in size to 2,600 square feet while the new takeaway could cover around 1,800 square feet of the floor space.
A partition would be created to divide the takeaway from the food shop, with the tills relocated to within the smaller footprint of the new look Longstore Locale.
One of the matters considered by the DPA was the new takeaway’s proposed opening hours.
In its planning application, the Coop said it would be open between 11:00 and 23:15 Sunday – Thursdays, and between 11:00 and 01:30 on Fridays and Saturdays.
The DPA said this would be ok.
“The operating hours are dependent on the nature of the proposed business, which in this case has been identified as selling pizza but the full details of the proposed business have not been forthcoming.”
In responding to concerns about the opening hours, the DPA has said that there will be no public access after 23:00 on any day, suggesting the service will be delivery only if it does stay open after that time on Fridays and Saturdays.
Other concerns were raised about noise and odour coming from the new takeaway and those have to be proven to have been addressed before the new pizza parlour can open.
“No development shall commence until a scheme for the sound insulation of the
odour control equipment referred to in a) set out above has been submitted to and
approved in writing by the Authority,” wrote the DPA when it granted planning permission.
“The measures shall be implemented in strict accordance with the approved details prior to the approved use and associated equipment being first brought into use and shall thereafter be retained as such at all times.”
Domino’s?
Although the CI Coop has not specified which takeaway the new facility will be, it is rumoured to be a Domino’s.
Domino’s first opened in 1960 in Michigan, USA – initially called ‘DomiNick’s’.
It expanded across the world, including opening its first UK store in 1985 and in Jersey in 2017.
There are two Domino’s in Jersey – the first opened in St Helier, with a second following in the west of the island in 2023.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing though as Domino’s had originally granted a franchise licence in Jersey in 2009, with that takeaway never opening.