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Search the Public Notice PortalMcDonald’s has ditched plans to stay open around the clock at its controversial proposed restaurant on the edge of Devizes.
The fast-food giant originally wanted the drive-thru off Horton Road to operate 24 hours a day, but has now slashed its proposed opening hours to 6am until midnight.
The retreat follows concerns over the impact of late-night customers, cars, and people gathering outside on residents living nearby.
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But while McDonald’s has given ground on opening hours, it is digging in over demands for potentially £267,000 of road, cycling and pedestrian improvements.
Wiltshire Council highways officers want the company to provide 145 metres of new footway and cycleway alongside the A361 and contribute £90,000 towards a Toucan crossing.
And depending on whether the neighbouring Aldi development goes ahead, McDonald’s could eventually be asked to provide as much as 440 metres of the route.
That has prompted a sharp response from highways consultants working for the burger giant.
They calculate the biggest package of improvements could cost around £267,000, branding that level of spending “completely unreasonable” and disproportionate to the restaurant.
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McDonald’s is still offering significant changes around the site itself.
New plans show additional pedestrian crossings around the A361/Horton Road roundabout, including a pedestrian island, together with new stretches of footway.
The Horton Road exit from the roundabout would also be widened to make it easier for large lorries to negotiate.
McDonald’s expects three to five deliveries every week using articulated lorries measuring 16.62 metres (54 ft) long.
Ten of the restaurant’s 37 car parking spaces and all four motorcycle spaces would be coned off when the trucks arrive.
The changes are the latest attempt to win approval for the restaurant on the former Cannings Hill/Murco garage site.
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The scheme has proved deeply controversial, with hundreds of people objecting or signing a petition against it.
Critics have raised fears over increased traffic, noise, litter, cooking smells and the effect on nearby residents.
McDonald’s says cutting its hours to midnight, keeping deliveries between 7am and 11pm and introducing other noise controls would protect neighbouring homes.
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