{"id":51571,"date":"2025-04-26T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51571\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:41:08","slug":"fury-in-englands-smallest-town-over-new-dominos-it-will-ruin-it-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51571\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury in England\u2019s smallest town over new Domino\u2019s – \u2018it will ruin it!\u2019 | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nestled on a spit of land<\/a> overlooking the gently lapping waters of a quiet estuary, this town dubbed England’s smallest could claim to be a slice of rural paradise. But trouble is on the horizon in the circular tasty shape of a takeaway pizza, as the world’s largest purveyor of the cheesy delivery favourite, Domino’s, is set to open a branch in a former bank.<\/p>\n

Manningtree, in Essex,<\/a> which overlooks the tranquil waters of the River Stour, is a short drive down the A137 from Colchester and sits on the edge of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape. The tiny settlement is home to just over 900 people, but already boasts several pubs and restaurants, many of which serve pizza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, plans have now been put forward to turn a former Barclays Bank branch into a Domino’s, which would offer takeaway pizzas from 11am to 11pm, and create 25 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Mail Online<\/a> reports some residents are not happy about the arrival of the pizza chain. Sophie Edwards, who lives just yards from the proposed site, said: “The Barclays building is one of the first buildings you see when entering the town. To be greeted by a Domino’s sign would be totally out of place for our historic town.”<\/p>\n

Rowan Hunter, who runs The Stour Store next door to the site, added: “It would be a complete eyesore compared to the other businesses.”<\/p>\n

So far more than 120 have objected to the plans to install the globally recognised brand on the High Street. Sarah Mawkes, who runs The Wholefood Store, said: “This is the slow erosion of our culture, we’ve created something special here in Manningtree, this would ruin it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Express.co.uk have contacted Domino’s for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Domino’s, which sells around a billion pizzas globally each year in 90 countries, told the Mail Online: “We bring the joy of the occasional takeaway to customers across the country and use data and local market knowledge to identify where there is demand for our store.<\/p>\n

“We also provide employment and development opportunities for local people.”<\/p>\n

They added that litter will be managed and there were plans for two rear parking spaces. Nearby Colchester, which is 10 miles from Manningtree, has three Domino’s branches listed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tendring District Council said it was still hearing public commennts about the plans in Manningtree until May.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nestled on a spit of land overlooking the gently lapping waters of a quiet estuary, this town dubbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,25913,393,2653,4884,27653,27654,9180,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dominos","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-essex","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-pizza","14":"tag-takeaway","15":"tag-towns","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}