IT'S CARRY ON TRADING FOR CHINESE TAKEAWAY BOSS AS COUNCIL OPTS TO GRANT CERTIFICATE OF LAWFULNESS

IT'S carry on trading for  Xin Feng who has run the New Star Chinese Takeaway at 263 Heneage Road, Grimsby, for the past five years.

North East Lincolnshire Council has today issued a certificate of lawfulness.

This overcomes considerations of whether planning consent was ever granted for such a use of the premises.

Ms Feng  purchased the business from Lu Lao Li in 2014, but the property's use as a Chinese takeaway is believed to date to as far back as 1971.

In awarding the certificate, NELC planning officer Lauren Birkwood noted a declaration from Ms Feng that she had always paid business rates and other outgoings based on the property being used as a business premises.

Letters of support were also provided by her supplier, Food Supplies UK, of Hull, her accountant, Simon Cheung of Manchester-based Cheung & Co and a previous owner of the business, Yin Fong Cheung.