{"id":522883,"date":"2025-10-23T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522883\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:18:14","slug":"green-light-for-stanningley-mcdonalds-drive-thru-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522883\/","title":{"rendered":"Green light for Stanningley McDonald&#8217;s drive thru plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By John Baron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plans for a new drive thru McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Stanningley have today been approved in principle by councillors.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals include a new restaurant building, external seating and parking, alongside new vehicular access off Town Street, which would be shared with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/green-light-for-stanningley-scrap-metal-plant-homes-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously approved residential development<\/a>\u00a0for 40 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Around 85 new full and part-time jobs will be created at the restaurant, which will open daily from\u00a06am-11pm.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Kevin Ritchie (Lab, Bramley &amp; Stanningley) spoke against the application at today\u2019s south and west plans panel meeting in Leeds Civic Hall.<\/p>\n<p>He raised issues regarding highways safety, the location of a proposed pedestrian crossing and increased traffic on an already busy road. <\/p>\n<p>Cllr Ritchie also raised concerns\u00a0over rising obesity levels caused by the supply of fast food. He added: \u201cFactors contributing to the crisis include the consumption of energy-dense foods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Tom Hinchcliffe (Lab, Bramley &amp; Stanningley) added concerns over pollution and asthma, which he said could be exacerbated by pollution from queuing traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Annie Newman, senior acquisitions surveyor at McDonald\u2019s, said the land was an underutilised brownfield site which would be \u2018brought back into positive use\u2019. She said a new zebra crossing, upgraded cycle lane and footpath improvements \u2018will benefit the community\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Newman also pointed to apprenticeship options, the inclusion of measure to prevent noise and odour problems, and daily litter picks to keep the site tidy. <\/p>\n<p>She said McDonald\u2019s had carried out an \u2018intensive programme\u2019 of highways assessments to ensure the impact of the proposed housing development next to the site had been taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>Council planning officers argued that the impact of the restaurant would be minimal from a traffic perspective and said that the site used to house businesses including the North Sea Chinese Restaurant and the Old Roundabout public house.<\/p>\n<p>Local views on the development appear to be split, with 56 letters in support, and 57 objecting.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s plans were approved in principle, subject to McDonald\u2019s agreeing to a raft of conditions. These include the monitoring and possible extension of the litter picking area around the new restaurant and an agreement regarding local employment.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full meeting below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-03-at-13.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191083\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Baron Plans for a new drive thru McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Stanningley have today been approved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-522883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115425096990161268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522883","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=522883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}