An award-winning shop praised for its initiatives to feed the homeless has revealed plans to expand.
Lettuce Eat Healthy opened in Peterhead’s Queen Street last year, offering healthy alternatives to high street fast food.
It has since drawn plaudits from locals with its initiative to feed the homeless, and last month won a Healthy Living award for providing a healthy alternative to fried foods.
The initiative proved so popular that staff were inundated with gifts of warm clothing to offer out, and was able to feed 75 people in a single night.
Now manager Lorraine Duthie has lodged an application to Aberdeenshire Council to expand the premises and offer outdoor dining to the town’s hungry locals.
The expansion – to the rear of the building – would create a new space for up to 20 diners to enjoy a sandwich or soup in the sunshine and erect a single storey office for business use.
And in a boost to her efforts, environmental health have offered no objections.
Laura Gunning, an officer with the service, said that although the team at Lettuce Eat Healthy would have to be mindful of noise and odour legislation going forward, there was no grounds to refuse the application.
In her letter to Aberdeenshire Council planners, she said the plan appears “to be acceptable from the point of view of noise emission”.
“The development appears from the plans submitted to be acceptable from the point of view of odour emission given that minimal cooking is undertaken,” she added.
