Walney takeaway plan would create eight new jobs

The Old Avon Taxis office on Walney Promenade. LEANNE BOLGER Chris Alexandrou said he has been trying to open a takeaway on the island for the last 20 years, but he has had his previous applications turned down. 

Now Mr Alexandrou wants to open a food business in the former Avon Taxis office building on the prom. 

He has bought the former taxi office and he has applied to Barrow Borough Council for planning permission for change of use to turn it into a takeaway. 

Mr Alexandrou said he would create around eight new jobs with the general hot food takeaway venture selling foods such as pizzas and kebabs. 

The businessman has run the successful Lakeland Continental takeaway in King Street, Ulverston, for the past 26 years. 

Mr Alexandrou said he has made around five previous applications to the Barrow Borough Council requesting permission to open a takeaway businesse on Walney, including applications for Amphitrite Street. He now hopes that this one will be approved and said: "This is a great location. 

"I have been trying for so many years to open a takeaway on Walney. "Ulverston has around the same population as Walney and Ulverston has 12 takeaways, but Walney only has one. I think Walney deserves another takeaway." 

Mr Alexandrou hopes that the takeaway will be given the green light so that he can be open at the beginning of April. 

He said the business would deliver food just on Walney to start with and then extend to deliver to customers off the island. 

Avon Cars has merged with the Barrow Cars business, under the Barrow Cars name, and using both telephone numbers. The Barrow Cars office is based in Dalkeith Street, Barrow.

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