Chippy owner fights to keep Union Jack fish mural

The owner of a chip shop in south London has said he will continue to fight to keep a mural on his wall.

Chris Kanizi, who owns and runs the Golden Chippy in Greenwich, has been ordered to get rid of the painting of a bow-tied fish waving a Union Jack flag.

The local council, which issued the notice, said the advert was in a conservation area and had been painted without permission.

Mr Kanizi said he was taking legal advice about appealing the decision.

He said he had the fish painted on his wall because he was not allowed by the Royal Borough of Greenwich to keep an earlier, 18ft (5.4m) hoarding, depicting the same patriotic piscine above his chip shop door.

The borough has dismissed suggestions their objection was because of the Union Jack.

It said: "The advert has been painted without any permission in a conservation area close to a World Heritage Site.

"The council is acting according to the government planning laws as it would with any unauthorised advert.

"Any suggestion this is because of the Union flag is disingenuous and untrue."

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