New McDonalds/Drive thru planned for the Hough Retail Park - not happy

c0tt0nt0p

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Evening all,

We live on the Crossings (behind the Hough Retail Park on Lichfield Road). The other half was walking the little one to school this morning and noticed a planning notice by the Retail Park (i've linked them below)

http://tinyurl.com/pyhftmd
2 x PDFs attached below also

There are 3 applications made by an Agent on behalf of McDonald's. 2 relate to store signage whilst the third is regarding a 12m tall "Totem" sign which they want to erect on the junction of Ranshaw Drive (the road that goes between Argos and KFC) and the small roundabout.

As it currently stands there are no application for the unit itself, a few of us and neighbours think they are getting their foot in the door. On the associated documents on the Planning site it shows a plan of the unit which will sit next to Argos and comprise of 2 storeys. The current road leading to the rear of the retail park would be moved closer to the entrance of Alston.

As a resident I'm not happy at all. The 12m sign to me seems a complete waste given that the roads leading up to the retail park a sheltered either by trees or buildings yet it will be staring right at us on the estate. Other signage in the area in relatively low level (Travelodge, KFC, Pizza Hut) so Ive no idea why this could not be the same.

As for the traffic this is a massive concern. With the building works going on in the town centre, once those developments are completed the town will just grind to a halt and the retail park which has always suffered will just get worse and worse. There's massive congestion now at weekends or when Alstom finish shifts.

What are people's thoughts on this ? The consultation on the planning website finishes on Monday 24th November so feel free to add you thoughts to the comments section on there.

Thanks

Richard
 

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littleme

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Hmmm I've heard that its actually being built on the land adjacent to the Lloyds Bank (the currently wooded area).


....must be wrong
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Can't see it being suitable for a car dealership but a MuckDonalds would fit in. Shame it's not a Bugger King though.

Anyway it will save a lot of people having to drive through the jams across town in order to clog their arteries up.

Got no objection to it from a location point of view, in fact I'm surprised they've not gone ahead with it ages ago.
 

Laurie61

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MacDonald's by Ford garage only have a sign on the building, I would think something like that would be entirely adequate.

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littleme

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Exactly....a 12m sign in the location they want achieves nothing....
Dont they have a sign at the entrance too? Or am I thinking of the tall menu signs? I think its a pretty good location for a new one personally....

In other news, my spies tell me that Stafford Department store is going to become mostly a 99p store......
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Apply for a huge sign so it gets rejected, submit revised smaller height application so it gets accepted. McDonalds get what they want in the first place.
 

Rikki

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This is the second thing I know of that we should of had a planning application letter about but haven't
 
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