Il consiglio comunale di Cork afferma che non può fare nulla per le file di negozi di vaporizzatori lungo la famosa arteria
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/cork-city-council-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-rows-of-vape-shops-on-famous-thoroughfare/a14899759.html
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The money laundering quarter
“Council say it can do anything…” is the explanation to many things in Cork and Dublin and plenty of other Irish urban areas.
However they were able to refuse cafes permission to open on the street as it had to be shops only. If there were too many cafes fine but there weren’t. Cafes especially the biggest chains have many downsides but we’ll take them any day over the vape shops.
As much as vape shops are an aesthetic blight, County Councils at present just objectively do not have the authority to do much of anything about them, legislation would have to pass to give them new powers
The obsession with a certain cohort of Irish society to have the state or state bodies intervene in every single aspect of society is bizarre.
Private retail property owners leasing their private retail units to private retail businesses isn’t the local authorities concern whatsoever as long as there is no planning infringement or shopfront infringement etc.
Having multiple vape and phones shops on our high street is a shite situation, however, this is a byproduct of the shift in consumer spending from retail to online over the last decade plus.
“There’s an issue here with legislation that trumps any local policy. The vape shop, despite people’s perception, is still a shop. So people can change the use of a shop to a vape shop and it doesn’t trigger a planning breach or a planning enforcement issue.”
“The only area we can challenge it is in relation to architectural conservation areas where the nature and character of the building will change negatively. We can pursue it under those terms but in terms of the actual use itself it’s still a shop in the legislation therefore we don’t have the remit currently to be able to control that,”
Makes sense, if we want to tackle ugly/unwanted businesses in urban areas then you need to change the planning legislation
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Perhaps revenue can investigate to why it’s so lucrative to have numerous similar shops in a row
While I suspect there is some form of fraud or illegal activity related to some of these businesses, it’s hilarious to me that vaping has exploded in popularity over the last few years, which has led to a natural explosion in the amount of vape shops, yet people just assume they’re all money laundering fronts as if everyone you know isn’t on a vape juice drip 24/7…
Serious question, is there a non-money-laundering reason for there being twelve billion vape shops on every street in the country?
Like, lots of people vape, but I don’t remember there being entire rows of tobacconists’ back in the day. Or six offies within a five minutes walk of each other.
I was in the Spitjack Restaurant for 90 minutes earlier, it’s on Washington street in Cork. Across the road there is some dump of a vape shop called vape and cloud or munch and cloud I can’t remember exactly. Specialises in vapes and American sweets and crisps. It’s 24h/7 days a week. There wasn’t one customer went in. Irish revenue are well able to go after hairdressers and taxi drivers who are up to sneaky stuff but don’t give a hoot about the blatant money laundering going on. There are streets in Ireland starting to look like the strip in Santa Ponsa.
There are two answers to this problem. It is either money laundering operation at scale, which should be tackled by law enforcement and revenue or there is so many people actually using those shops and they serve the society.
Either way this has nothing to do with county councils and the fact that some do not like the looks of those shops it is no reason to ban them.