Take-away sandwich chain Subway are looking to open an outlet in Hoylake.
The company has submitted a planning application for illuminated, internal signage for 58 Market Street. The building (opposite Sainsbury’s Local and the pelican crossing) has been vacant since Lamb & Co relocated to Birkenhead. Presumably the premises already has the necessary planning permission to sell food – I can’t see another planning application on behalf of Subway?
Would you be pleased to see another nationwide retailer open an outlet in Hoylake? Have your say in the comments below.
An empty shop is an ugly shop!
loads of negative comments on this Facebook posts, I think it will be a positive inclusion to market street, a threat to local business or a chance for them to raise their games so to speak, competition can be a good thing, but apparently hoylake has a history of being a bit “league of gentlemen local things for local people there is nothing for you here!
Hoylake needs a lift! Get us a subway now!
i wish this happens will make so much money !
I’ve always found Subway to emit the most awful smell. It would threaten the success of our cafes, and offers an unhealthy menu which does not take into account the diversity of diets in Hoylake. I would not be happy for this chain shop to open in our town.
Moreton has a subway and it’s always dead anyway! Good luck to all though.
hoylake already has a plethora of independent cafè’s and eateries.. These contribute to our village feel and local community.
We don’t need a Subway or any other big name sandwich shop!
Just about anything is better than nothing to brighten up the dismal image of Market St. Last year I walked in that area and saw a restaurant called: Dirty Food…are they still open? It seems that so many businesses open and close within a short time period,due, no doubt, to lack of capital. Pity!
If Heswall, New Brighton, Moreton etc can all have a Subways and still manage to retain/develop a wide range of food establishments then why not Hoylake?
I think this would be the first international brand to come to Market Street and we should embrace it. It’s a sign that things are on the up – they have plenty of healthy options too!
This is good news and maybe Sayers will follow suot 🙂
indeed! ….”an empty shop is an ugly shop”
and it was not even a shop…..but an office that was somewhat at odds with any ethos of our having retail on our main [market] street.
The fact an “international brand” is interested in market street is a big slap in the face for those in our local council that suggest Hoylake is in decline and are promoting an emerging Core Strategy of downgrading Hoylake from “Town” to “District Centre”
Also weren’t TESCO looking at options for the Punch Bowl not so long ago???
Wake UP local technocrats!!
If SUBWAY can see that Hoylake is a place to be how can you stick your head in the [beach] sand and still think to downgrade our TOWN??
I can accept that as commented above SUBWAY ‘may’ emit the most awful smell.
But I do not believe it would threaten the success of our existing cafes.
Competition is good, it can mean that what survives in the marketplace has diversity, is of a better quality, more viable, and has greater longevity. Which is all the better for our town’s main [market] street.
BEJ came and went
DIRTY FOOD [awful brand name] came and went
LOBSTER & STEAK remains to be seen if it will survive
We probably don’t need a SUBWAY as isn’t just as likely to be as ‘dead’ as the one in Moreton?
But anything that gives Hoylake a lift above us just having local things for local people could only be a good thing
I’ve had a message back from one our Local Elected Representatives advising me that the Planning Case Officer feels that even though there have been three formal objections, at this stage he is inclined to approve the application under delegated powers.
So if you don’t want to see this approved by a simple “rubber stamping” exercise and you want to see it debated in a council planning committee you need to make formal objections…..
There is a petition that can be signed against this ‘SUBWAY’
I’ve seen the petition in Fahys Bakery……
This means more takeaway food litter on Market Street.
Comments on this site and facebook are all well and good, but it is the comments on the Council planning website that the planners are duty bound to note. If you, like me, object to this application, then please register your comments there !
Council approve plans for Hoylake Subway
Indeed Advertising Consent has been approved
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/planning/Docs/DMZfiles/29538_1.pdf
with no site specific conditions??
AND no record of any petition against having been sent to the council, even though there was one being generated in Fahys Bakery
fahys still trading i see.
THOUGH [sadly] the Little Deli is NOT
The owner of which cited the loss of lunchtime trade to Subway as one of the reasons the Little Deli was no longer viable on Market Street……….
Hmmmm. Is customer feedback allowed? My problem with The Little Deli was that it never seemed to know what it was (as well to me at least, it not having a particularly novel/distinctive/attractive range of products). Was it a sandwich shop, or a deli? It seemed to me like Palms in West Kirby, which similarly didn’t know whether it was a deli or a sandwich shop. And we know what happened to Palms. In West Kirby The Little Deli will compete as a deli with the really splendid Portuguese-run 1386 Deli; it will compete as a sandwich shop with any number, tho’ admittedly not a Subway. But maybe it’s only a bad thing if you lose custom to a Subway?