A PETITION objecting to yet ANOTHER takeaway restaurant in South Woodford's George Lane has been launched.

Twenty-seven signatures have been collected from residents who do not want the former Hair Funk beauty salon transformed into a fast food outlet.

Campaigners believe that their quality of life will suffer as another business catering to drunken revellers will bring more rowdy behaviour, litter and crime.

Jennifer Campbell, 40, lives opposite the proposed business with her two young children.

She said: “My main concern is that it is only going to be a fried chicken or kebab place.

“While people who visit the Chinese takeaway will take their food home to eat, people will eat this sort of food outside and there will be noise and litter everywhere.

“There are rats in the area already and while rats do happen it certainly won't help having that place open.

“And these types of places are not normally the most hygienic – and I understand that they have no courtyard out back to store their rubbish.”

Fellow neighbour Susan Westwood, 51, agreed.

The mum-of-one said: “I definitely don't want another fast food restaurant as there's already chicken boxes thrown into our front garden plus bottles from the pub.

“Sometimes we get fights outside and we don't want it getting any more rowdy.”

Retired psychiatric nurse Michel Rajooba first moved to George Lane in 1982.

The father-of-three said: “People from the pubs already make a lot of noise and I think it will get worse.

“Already some of the cars around here get vandalised by drunk people and things have been much worse in the last three weeks.

However, Laurie Hyams, owner of nearby Kitchens Italiana Ltd, said he did not see a problem He said: “I don't know what they are so worried about.

“There's already people hanging around the pub around the corner and there's the Chinese restaurant, fish and chip shop plus takeaway so one more won't make any difference.”

The application will be considered at Redbridge Council's Regional Planning Committee West at 7.15pm on Monday.