An artisan pizza van has been granted permission to open up on the former Frenchay Hospital site despite residents’ objections. The One Pizza, run by friends Esra Koroglu Ward and Ayse Ozer, will serve customers only on Thursdays initially, after South Gloucestershire councillors agreed to issue a street trading licence.
Seven neighbours and Winterbourne Parish Council objected amid concerns about noise, smells, litter, parking and the fact it would be near a primary school and open at 3pm to “coincide with the afternoon school run”, so could encourage children to eat “fast food”. But licensing sub-committee members approved the application after hearing the two female owners made healthy, hand-stretched, Italian pizzas from scratch cooked in a wood-fired oven using no oil and that they would clear up all rubbish.
Esra, a librarian, told the hearing at Kingswood civic centre that the owner of Frenchay Park House had allowed them to use private land near the Grade II-listed building on the edge of the Frenchay Common conservation area and that the van would not be left in the location overnight. She said: “There were some concerns about healthy eating and it being fast food.
