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.
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The council said the main considerations with the planning application were highway safety and capacity, noise and odours, waste and litter management, and design. A drive-thru lane is proposed around the building, with access into the site via a new bellmouth junction on the western side of the access road which connects into Magenta Way.
A separate pedestrian access is planned onto the access road. A total of 27 car parking spaces would be provided within the site, along with two disabled spaces, two EV spaces and a cycle shelter.
In a planning document, Pegasus Group on behalf of applicant AC Lloyd Holdings Limited, said: "The proposed drive-thru is a main town centre use as defined by the National Planning Policy Framework and is considered to be an acceptable use within the local centre.
"It provides a complimentary use to the permitted retail uses and would assist in meeting the day to day needs of the wider urban extension."
It added "there are no adverse impacts arising from the development and any impacts can be appropriately mitigated." The planning application is pending consideration by Gedling Borough Council.
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