Council's food truck trial sparks anger in Stanwell Park

Glen Humphries
Updated October 8 2021 - 8:07pm, first published 3:30pm
MERC, NEWS, STANWELL PARK FOOD TRUCKS Pic taken 8th October 2021 of Stanwell Park business owners (from left), Irene Stimson, Amy Silapan, Ampon Yodpangterm, Patsita Apiratthanyakul, Sandra Tilyard, Kat Erskine. Hoy Huan and John Vander are angry Wollongong City Council has launched a food truck trial that will compete with their businesses. Picture: Robert Peet
MERC, NEWS, STANWELL PARK FOOD TRUCKS Pic taken 8th October 2021 of Stanwell Park business owners (from left), Irene Stimson, Amy Silapan, Ampon Yodpangterm, Patsita Apiratthanyakul, Sandra Tilyard, Kat Erskine. Hoy Huan and John Vander are angry Wollongong City Council has launched a food truck trial that will compete with their businesses. Picture: Robert Peet

Wollongong council's planned food truck trial is a "slap in the face" for established business, said a Stanwell Park cafe owner.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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