Last week, the Greenwich Council Cabinet recommended that King William Walk be designated as a prohibited street for trade of itinerant ice cream, with a final decision that will be taken at an upcoming meeting of the full council.
The authority of the southern London included the road in the northwest corner of Greenwich Park in a list of streets in which he wanted to prohibit the ice cream trade in a policy approved at a complete meeting of the Council at the end of 2023, but the ice cream vans operator for a long time has long been challenged the decision in court in the basic that the decision of the council was not a legal sound.
Bromley’s Magistrates Court was on the side of St Hilaire SR and ordered the Council to execute the public consultation process and the Wheter King King William Walk review on the list of prohibited streets.
The LDRs previously revealed through a request for freedom of information (FOI) that Greenwich’s council lights £ 52,000 of public money in legal costs for the case.
Greenwich’s council worried about his consultation process ordered by the Court earlier this year, and at a cabinet meeting on April 9, it was revealed that of the 25 organizations and residents who responded to the consultation, 16 were.
At the cabinet meeting, Cllr Jackie Smith said: “The only reasons in which the council can prevent traveling ice cream is quoted in any of its streets is the interest in the prevention of obstruction towards traffic or undue street to the people they use.
“We have had many complaints from many residents of King William Walk in the past.”
Cllr Smith acknowledged that if Greenwich’s council approved the prohibition decision, this would like to be challenged in court and, therefore, declared that the Council would need to “defend in a robust way” its decision.
She added: “We are also aware of the fact that even if the decision is made, there will still be ice cream merchants that sink it and will have to be applied in a robust way.”
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CLLR PAT SLATTERY, neighborhood councilor for Greenwich Park in which King William Walk is, supported the prohibition proposal.
She said: “I think it is important to say that the Council is not an anti-Ace cream. There are ice cream vendors in a reasonable vacuum cleaner where this ice cream is parked regularly.
“It gets along the way, there are huge queues, it is very noisy and local residents have a very annoying bone about it.
“They will feel planned to see this, but you are right that it is the application that will be the challenge.”
Before the cabinet approved the decision to recommend the prohibition of King William Walk for the full council, the leader of the Anthony Okereke council said: “We are not prohibiting ice cream in Greenwich in any way. We love an ice cream.”
