Preston’s much-loved Tinos set to become new fish and chip restaurant

The former Tinos in Hill Street between Friargate and Corporation Street Pic: Google

One of the city’s most-loved restaurants is to see a new use as a fish and chip emporium.

The new venture – complete with takeaway and a restaurant of its own – will occupy the building that was previously home to Tinos.

The much-loved eatery – on Hill Street, overlooking Ringway – closed down 12 months ago after more than 20 years of being run by the same couple.

Preston City Council planning officers have given the go-ahead to the fish and chip business, which will also feature a separate coffee lounge and a second cafe – the latter of which will incorporate an outdoor seating area on Seed Street.

The takeaway will be established on the lower ground floor of the premises in a unit which did not form part of Tinos and has been vacant for several years, since its previous occupiers – a trophy shop – moved out.

The new restaurant, coffee lounge and cafe will take over the upper ground floor on which Tinos was previously based. Residential apartments will remain on the top floors of the part three, part four-storey building.

A condition imposed on the planning permission granted by the town hall means the new external seating area can be used only until 9pm Monday to Saturday and 8pm on Sundays and bank holidays.

No objections were received to the proposal and a report by planning officials outlining the reason for their approval stated that the “small-scale nature” of the outlet “would not harm the vitality and viability of the [city] centre or its overall range of shops”.

“The proposed change of use would bring a vacant property back into use and would retain and, in some areas, enhance the active frontage at street level,” they concluded.

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