Bell Green McDonalds

[stuart]

A refurbishment planning application which seems to suggest it's going to become more of a drive-thru. Already a hazard and encouraging an even worse environmental & health culture.

"Refurbishment of the restaurant with alterations to the drive thru lane, to include additional land for the introduction of side-by-side ordering with a paved island for signage and amended kerb lines. Elevation changes include the removal of existing shopfront window and infilled with new external access to store, bump out entrance lobby and reusing the existing doors, the formation of two new access doors and aluminium cladding. New security exit door and the existing entrance lobby removed allow for wider car drive, together with existing Customer Order Display (COD) and canopy to be retained, with an additional COD/Canopy installed. New Goal Post height restrictor, replacement patio furniture and Armco barrier. Installation of EVCP and associated kiosks with the reallocation of parking bays and associated works to the site at Mcdonald's Bell Green Retail Park, Bell Green SE26."

From: https://planning.lewisham.gov.uk/online ... ab=summary

[JGD]

Proposals are of biblical proportions.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

[broken_shaman]

I have written to planning.

I haven't objected, but I have asked for conditions to be tied to any approval, asking for McDonalds to contribute towards bin improvements on the public areas of the retail park and to play a greater role in managing litter outside the confines of their tiny car park, which they keep very clean and tidy. The McDonalds litter is a big feature of litter in that area and residential streets, where it seem car drivers pull up, eat their McDonalds and then dump the waste in the street, where it gets spread by crows and foxes.

It is a shame that there was not much publicity when it was decided it could be a 24 hour drive through, as if my memory is correct, I don't think that was the case when it opened.

McDonalds litter is everywhere, but definitely concentrated around restaurants and while much of the packaging is biodegradable, I don't see why we have to watch it biodegrade over a period of years, attracting further littering in the process.

I daresay the council will just rubber-stamp it with no demands, because they have very little ambition.

[Forester]

I daresay the council will just rubber-stamp it with no demands, because they have very little ambition

Councillors do have ambitions, but maybe not for Lewisham e.g. the former mayor was happy to cost us an expensive mayoral bye-election so that he could pursue his ambition to be an MP.

[Just John]

I daresay the council will just rubber-stamp it with no demands, because they have very little ambition

Councillors do have ambitions, but maybe not for Lewisham e.g. the former mayor was happy to cost us an expensive mayoral bye-election so that he could pursue his ambition to be an MP.

Not a nice man. Replaced by someone as nice.

Anyone prepared to accept money for such a pointlessly redundant role must have a questionable character.