A kebab van has been blocked from operating in Sandhurst for the second time over fears it would result in customers illegally parking.

Mr Mehmet Ilze applied to change use of land on Yorktown Road outside Sandhurst Day Centre for his takeaway enterprise.

It comes after Sandhurst Parish Council already refused his operation on the nearby Sandhurst Memorial Park, owned by the lower authority.

The parish council blocked plans despite approval from Bracknell Forest Council, leaving the takeaway van without a home.

Now, the same owner has applied to operate from a layby off Yorktown Road, serving kebabs and burgers to customers from 5pm to 10pm every day of the week.

Sandhurst Parish Council has raised concerns over the fresh plans, arguing that it would negatively impact the residential area and increase illegal parking.

Highways officers from Bracknell Forest Council agreed that the location of the van would have a ‘significant adverse impact on the free flow of traffic’ which would ‘create conflicts between vehicles and pedestrians’.

This would have an overall ‘unacceptable impact on highway safety’, especially given cars would potentially stop opposite a pedestrian crossing.

Sandhurst Parish Council said that the ‘noise, smell and general disturbance’ of the van would negatively impact neighbours.

This would further have an impact on the ‘rural character and appearance of the area’, and could set a precedent for similar businesses to open in the future.

Twelve residents had raised objections to the plans, concerned mostly over the traffic problems and loss of parking spaces outside the day centre.

The layby currently offers three parking spaces for cars.

Others were worried about potential impacts of littering, noise and anti-social behaviour.