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Camden News - by DAN CARRIER
Published: 5 March 2009

Brassino’s owner Constantinos Patsalides

Planners ‘take away’ part of café’s licence

A POPULAR workers’ café has been told it can carry on serving fry-ups but it can’t be run like a takeaway.
Planning officials found that only half of double-fronted Brassino’s in Kentish Town Road was covered by a food licence. Owner Constantinos Patsalides appeared before councillors on Thursday night.
He produced a raft of evidence stating his business has been serving breakfasts and lunches since 1998 – planning law states that if traders have been running a premises for 10 years, businesses can carry on.
However, two residents’ groups wanted the café’s application to be turned down.
Kentish Town Road Action – which successfully blocked a new bookmakers opening in the street – said they were “very concerned about the council’s monitoring of the property and its lack of action regarding enforcement.”
And the Leighton Road Neighbourhood Association’s Sue Prickett warned: “It is very easy for the high street to drift if we are not vigilant – if it has too many cafés, estate agents and building societies then people will gradually stop shopping there and all businesses will suffer.”
Mr Patsalides said: “I have been running a café here for 30 years and the law is on my side. If they had turned me down, I would have taken them to court.”
But his victory was tempered by the fact a separate application to be allowed to run the café as a takeaway was dismissed.

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