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Derelict Building to Become Hot Food Takeaway

By Thomas Scott
November 26, 2013
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Despite the already saturated takeaway market in Penicuik, a new fast food/restaurant hybrid eatery will soon open in the south of the town.

Midlothian Council’s planning department granted permission early November for alterations to a derelict, vacant unit at 2 The Square, allowing the owner to now operate a hot food takeaway from the prominent building.

The owners, Corfu Kebab & Pizza House, already operate a smaller takeaway from a neighbouring premises, however with the new permission they plan to expand into a two floored floorspace which will encompass a new takeaway area and ice cream parlour on the ground floor and a small restaurant on the first floor. A sit-in eatery offering will challenge those restaurants already established in the town, namely Giovanni’s Bistro, a mere two minutes walk from the former BNC Autoparts unit, and Little Italy in the north of the town.

Roberto Pia, owner of Little Italy, spoke out earlier in the year about a new Indian restaurant, Babu G’s, opening in the shopping precinct, stating that the increased strain on his business may only lead to the closure of further local restaurants which will struggle to cope with the addition of an additional sit-in facility.

A nearby café, Salsa’s Diner, closed after successfully appealing a ‘change of use’ refusal earlier in the year. Its demise could signal the future for the planned restaurant however Midlothian’s planners believe that it will add to the area. We’ll have to wait to see if they are correct.

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Editor and founder of The Penicuik Cuckoo. Fourth year Architecture student (MA Hons) at Edinburgh University currently writing on the role of architecture in post-industrial towns. Interested in all things Penicuik. Triplet.

  • George

    Penicuik is becoming ridiculous!! Yes we have empty shops that need filling but I thought there was an obesity crisis in the uk at the mo?? How can any business already set up be expected to survive ?

  • Claire

    Must say I do like Corfu kebab & Pizza house, so if it is just an expansion of that then fair enough, but I really think Penicuik is needing some other kind of shops like decent clothes shops would be good for a start!!! All we have are bargain shops and takeaways!!! And I REALLY miss the shoe repair shop!!!! 🙂

  • Andy

    We don’t want derelict buildings so someone offers to open a business, then we moan that its the wrong kind of business…Lets face the very people that want other businesses to open are probably the same people that would drive past on the way to an out of town retail park anyway…. We had shops, people didn’t use them, they closed and now its clearly easier to open a takeaway as folk need to eat and quite often will pay someone else to do the cooking!

  • Denny Knox

    This is the problem with Penicuik, a lot of people would rather a building sit empty than have a business operate out of it.

    I know you can say that Penicuik is over saturated with Restaurants but lets face it, how many of them are good quality?

    Competition is good for the consumer, as it gives us a choice of where to take our business.

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