Drive-thru pasty shop? Not in my bake yard

IT was cooked up as a way of bringing a taste of traditional Cornwall to a ‘characterless’ area.

But plans for a drive-thru Cornish pasty shop have enraged locals who fear it will result in traffic chaos as would-be customers flood the neighbourhood.

They also argue that the development should be blocked as it is ‘easy enough to get a pasty round here’.

They voiced their concerns after the Cornish Oven began applying for permission to build the drive-thru shop near an industrial estate in Penzance.

In a pre-planning application to the council, the firm said: ‘There is no defining character or identity to the area; the industrial and retail estates and road dominate.

‘There is little to no attempt to respond to the local vernacular, with the area being populated by blank, characterless and featureless buildings.’

But Sarah Blight, who has lived in the area for 28 years, said: ‘This proposal will make a huge impact on us with noise, traffic, petrol pollution, extractor fans and lighting.

‘We already have pasty shops less than a quarter of a mile away.’

Fellow resident Patricia Groves added: ‘This development is going to cause a huge traffic problem situated right next to a very busy roundabout. The area is already a traffic bottleneck at certain times of day. The increase in traffic will cause absolute chaos.’

A decision on the application will be made at a future date.

The world’s first Cornish pasty drive-thru also opened in Pool in 2015.

Under EU rules only a pasty made in Cornwall from a traditional recipe can be called a ‘Cornish pasty’.