Published: January 26, 2008
Burnham-On-Sea restaurant's 'intrusive' signs must go, say planners

A Burnham-On-Sea restaurant has this week lost its bid to retain several illuminated signs outside its High Street premises.

Burnham Town Council's Planning Committee last year called on the Chandni restaurant at 54 The High Street to remove three illuminated signs outside its premises (pictured) because it claimed they had been installed without permision and broke planning guidelines.

However, the owners of the restaurant submitted a full planning application to Sedgemoor District Council to try and gain permission to retain the signage.

Sedgemoor Planning Officer Con McStay this week turned down the application, though, and said that the signs would have to be removed because they are 'intrusive'.

He explained: "Due to their number, sizes, prominent positions and elevated height, the proposed signs would be visually intrusive and not in the interest of visual amenity."

He added that the signs break rules within the Sedgemoor District Local Plan.