A drive-thru could be built next to hundreds of new Nottinghamshire homes instead of a planned pub. Plans have been submitted for a Popeyes Louisiana Chicken drive-thru restaurant near the junction of Magenta Way and Colwick Loop Road, next to the progressing 807-home Rivendell housing development near Netherfield.
The site forms part of the Teal Close Sustainable Urban Extension area, which was originally given permission for an employment area, a community Hub, primary school, hotel, care home, playing pitches and changing facilities, public open space, allotments, structural landscaping, access arrangements and an ecology park. Plans were later granted for the local centre site with a pub, retail terrace and children’s day nursery.
The land allocated for the new pub has been fenced off for a number of years and remains undeveloped, but could now see the Popeyes drive-thru built in its place. No end user was found for the consented pub, which Gedling Borough Council officers found disappointing, according to planning documents.
