Online Representation

Personal Details:  Please Note the Council Publishes the Name and Address of all people who comment on a Planning Application. 

Forename: Trevor
Surname: Lewis
Address: 1, Kirkby House Drive
Kirkby-in-Ashfield,
NG17 8JP

Opinion:

Overview View: OBJECT

Comment:

Comment:I doubt if a McDonald's will make Kirkby - a place already overloaded with takeaway food outlets - a better place, but my more objective concern is with the road traffic situation such a development will give rise to:
    - Lane End/ Urban Road is a busy stretch of highway, with cars coming fast around the corner from Victoria Road
   - at certain times of day traffic backs up as far as the post office on Victoria Road and beyond
   - at present the only traffic crossing the flow is a few cars turning right out of Miller's Way
   - this would all change if McDonald's is built at the proposed site
   - a great many cars will be crossing the flow: 
        1. traffic turning into McDonald's  from  the west (Victoria Road direction)
        2. traffic exiting McDonald's towards the centre of Kirkby
I believe this combination of factors will create a fraught and dangerous situation at times when there is a queue on the eastbound side of the road. On these grounds I suggest the application be rejected and McDonald's invited to find an alternative location.