Ice cream van will have to move farther from shop

AN ICE cream van will have to keep back from a kids playground in Ballycastle to help a nearby shop - which along with other businesses in Moyle pays the highest business rates in Northern Ireland - councillors have said.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Mar 2010, 14:13 BST

A discussion came up when councillors talked about the tendering of provision for ice cream vans in the Moyle area.

SDLP councillor Catherine McCambridge said an ice cream van which has the tender for the Quay Road Playing Fields parks up near a kids play area even though there is a shop nearby seeking to get similar trade from local children and families.

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The councillor said she has no objections to the ice cream van being elsewhere in the Quay Road but said positioning itself close to the playground was unacceptable.

Sinn Fein councillor Paudie McShane said: "We have the highest business charge rates in the North and we have a duty to protect them (the shop).

"We would have to protect the ratepayers. The carpark (at Quay Road) is the designated area."

He said the ice cream van had moved up beside the swings and he said that was not an issue until the shop opened nearby.

The Council is to confirm the situation but councillors said they believed the terms of the Quay Road arrangement are that the ice cream van would sit in the actual car park.

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