Surely the table comparing the Costa application with the McDonalds one is the most passive aggressive piece of planning documentation ever seen.
The council have really hamstrung themselves by allowing Costa – if they refuse McDonalds based on highway grounds, which they probably still will, one of the inspectors will have the easiest job in the world.
It’s strange, there’s been an appetite for a drive thru McDonalds in this town as far back as I remember, from the site where the flats were built between the A483 and Chester road at the Gresford roundabout, to the Dickens site, and now we have a solid planning app and it’s one of the worse locations.
I’d wait a couple of years for the WAG to build that new Junction 4 on the A483 and put it there.