{"id":418774,"date":"2025-09-12T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418774\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:35:26","slug":"mcdonalds-intends-to-revisit-plans-for-new-sheffield-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418774\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s intends to revisit plans for new Sheffield restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chain said it looked forward to &#8220;continuing our discussions with the council and local residents to address any concerns&#8221;, with the plans aiming to create 120 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council officers previously said the restaurant would be within &#8220;easy walking distance of schools and locations where young people congregate&#8221;, and that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3w4j80en24o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not promote healthy eating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also expressed concerns over the impact on traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council previously completed a programme of roadworks on the A61, known as London Road, to ease traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McDonald&#8217;s claimed the level of new traffic created by the development would be &#8220;modest and unlikely to have a material impact&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, officers said the restaurant would be &#8220;entirely&#8221; reliant on access from the A61 and criticised a lack of safe access for pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 270 objections to the initial plans were submitted, with 31 people offering comments in support of the plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chain said it looked forward to &#8220;continuing our discussions with the council and local residents to address&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115192065792634035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}