An unused building once home to a bank is due to be transformed into a new burger establishment just off Southport high-street.
Smack Hamburgers, based in Southport, has been given the go-ahead to transform the old Co-operative Bank on London Street, Southport into a burger restaurant and takeaway. The new addition to Southport's town centre is expected to bring a number of new jobs to the town.
In his report on the planning application, Sefton council's chief planning officer Derek McKenzie expressed some initial concern that the transformation, which would see a new and possibly noisy ventilation system installed at the back of the shop, would create a disturbance for those living above and around the restaurant. This was not deemed an issue due to the "commercial nature of the town centre" in which it is based and a condition of the approval being that "sound insulation" is installed before it opens.
