Another burger restaurant is set to open on High Street near a cluster of junk food joints. We asked people if there were too many and the council needed to prioritise people's health.
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00:00 But people go every day, it can be a problem, there's a lot of salt, a lot of finger, other than that, I can't see a problem with the council, because it brings business into the city, but it's a problem for the people that have takeaways, you know, fast food all the time.
00:18 Well, no, because at the moment they can't really be choosy about whether they get into the city centre, because the place up here is half a shops and empty, so if they're willing to say, well you can't come here, but it's their loss, it's their rent they're going to lose, it's more money, then it creates jobs for people.
00:36 But it is, personally, if you work for a council, if you work for a doctor, you'd say it's a bad idea, if you work for a council and need to rent the buildings out, then it's a good idea, but it's to each their own, that's it, hypocrite.
00:54 So I think the thing on the high street is that we need to look at that balance between the needs of residents, the needs of business to operate perfectly legitimately, but also we need to think carefully about the real impacts of promoting a lot of fast food.
01:10 Food's quite a difficult and contentious subject sometimes, and when people may say that they want to buy burgers, actually it's often reflected in a lack of choice, so there's really a question not so much about how we do with fast food, but how we support smaller businesses to have a much wider variety of food offerings in the city centre.
01:32 At the same time as tackling the public health issues all around obesity and diet and indeed dental health.
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