‘Modern’ drive-thru restaurant will create 20 jobs in Wyberton - despite claims it will be ‘detrimental’ to care home
Plans for a ‘crisp, modern’ drive-thru restaurant have been given the green light.
The proposal — which will create 20 jobs — has been given the thumbs up for construction off Wallace Way, part of Wyberton’s Quadrant development.
The development, which straddles the A16, is already a fast food hub with Burger King, Papa John’s, Costa Coffee, Starbucks and Greggs already trading.
A petrol station and mini mart store is currently being built on the Quadrant, which also includes a Premier Inn, Enterprise, Drayton Motors’ Kia showroom, a nursing home, houses and Boston United’s Jakemans Community Stadium.
The identity of the restaurant and drive-thru was not mentioned in the planning application, which was made by EG On The Move, a convenience retail destination operator, which has previously worked with McDonald’s, Subway and Popeye’s.
“The application site is circa.0.25 hectares of cleared and empty ground lying to the west of the A16 and south of Wallace Way,” the Boston Borough Council planning officer’s report said.
“Access is via Coney Way, a spur road off the south carriageway of Wallace Way.
“The area immediately surrounding the application site is commercial in character, with existing buildings including fast food outlets, coffee shops and a hotel, and extant consents and/or schemes under construction including a petrol filling station, retail units and a car showroom.”
One resident objected to the plans, stating an original application was ‘for an employee parking area and an offload area for the fuel tankers’.
“My objection to the drive through food outlet would be detrimental to the area,” the letter added.
“The access road the the road used to access to Avocet Care Home and there would be vehicles and noise from the fast food outlet along with the possibility of discarded food containers etc.
“This would be detrimental to the residents of the care home’.”
Wyberton Parish Council also raised concerns on similar grounds.
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The planning officer’s report stated: “The present scheme uses some of the land originally intended for the filling station, but the proposal is in keeping with the general principle of The Quadrant for a zoned mixed use development including housing and employment land.
“Both Wyberton Parish Council and an individual objector have referred to the change from the original use as envisaged in the 2014 hybrid application and indeed the reserved matters application, where the application site was largely used for parking associated with the filling station.
“However, in planning terms this is a commercial use in line with the original conception of The Quadrant, as is the food outlet now applied for.”
Responding to claims the restaurant would be detrimental to the neighbouring care home, the report added: “It is noted that the Avocet care home is some 150 metres from the centre of the application site, and that between it and the site a number of large commercial buildings have received planning consent and are under construction.
“With this screening and at this distance the proposal is not likely to have any material impacts on the residents of the care home.”
The report described the single storey building as having a ‘crisp, modern appearance’ and adding it was ‘relatively modest in size relative to the plot, with much of the site being taken up with the required drive through corridor and parking provision’.
The planning and retail statement prepared by agent Montagu Evans said: “Beyond the uses proposed and associated benefits for passing motorists, the proposed development will result in economic benefits by way of the creation of 20 jobs.”
