Plans progress for expansion of McDonald's Restaurant in Dundalk
Significant Further Information received by local authority
Plans are progressing for the expansion of the McDonald's Restaurant in Dundalk, with the provision of Significant Further Information to Louth County Council on the proposed development.
McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Limited applied to Louth County Council in December 2022, for planning permission for a lateral extension to the restaurant floor area by 15.2sqm (from 270.7sqm to 285.9sqm) along the northern, western and southern elevations of the building.
Included in the planning application is provisions for a new raised traffic island to create a two lane Drive Thru arrangement and the provision of associated Drive Thru structures including a height restrictor and customer order delivery point.
It is also seeking permission for a new delivery door and a new sliding door entrance with extended patio paving along the northern elevation; amendments to the existing corral on the southern elevation; the provision of an external corral and container in the south-western corner of the site; as well as revisions to the car parking layout; relocation of existing signage and canopies; general elevational amendments and all associated site development work.
Louth County Council sought Further Information on the planned development in February. Included in the request are details in relation to the existing and proposed sit layout plans. In its request, the Planning Authority said it had "a number of concerns from the examination of the existing and proposed site layout plans and how this accords to the previous permission for the site", for works which were granted in 2016, " and the impacts of the proposed amendments now proposed to this restricted site."
Included in the Significant Further Information provided to Louth County Council on 20 April was details "principally
relating to an amended red line boundary (site size increased from 0.16 Ha to 0.17Ha) to facilitate the provision of boundary fencing along the northern, southern, eastern and western boundaries of the application site."
A decision on the application is now due by 17 May, with submissions due by 3 May.