Persian restaurant given reprieve and chance for negotiations over patio
The owner of a Tolworth Persian restaurant has been given a reprieve from council officers who wanted him to tear down a timber patio.
The patio, outside Sarab in Ewell Road, was deemed "discordant" and "intrusive" by Kingston Council's planning department.
But at a meeting last night, Surbiton councillors deferred enforcment action to allow for negotiations over six months.
Owner Hamid Nejad said: "If it doesn't look right, I will put it right. The intention really is to make the restaurant look better, not the way it was."
Enforcement officer Paul Young said: "We're not precluding a solution or coming to an agreement or a compromise scheme with the owner.
"We would be open to a revised planning application."
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