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Council is in receipt of a development application for the demolition of a Service Station and subsequent construction of a McDonalds Restaurant and drive through facility, associated signage, parking and landscaping at Lot 1 DP 717582 or 69 – 71 Argyle Street, Picton.
Should you wish to make a formal submission regarding this application please write to Council at PO Box 21, Picton 2571 or email Council at council@wollondilly.nsw.gov.au prior to the exhibition closing date. Telephone enquiries can be made between 8:00 am and 4:30 pm and should be directed to Council's Development Assessment Officer on 4677 8257.
The application will be on exhibition until 24 December 2008. Please refer to the Library link to the right for additional documentation.
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by matt 17 Dec 2008, 10:35am | 473 views
24/7 operation - car noise
The only other 24/7 McDonalds I am aware of at Sylvania (I'm sure there's more) has long been a magnet for hoons from miles away. Go and have a look for a glimpse of Picton's future.
Even at 3 in the morning you will see a long stream of cars out the driveway and down the street, all with engines running.
And of course on the way there and back the typically modified noisy cars are creating noise far in excess of McDonalds itself's direct operational noise.
I could ALMOST tolerate a McDonalds in town that opened the standard 6-11 hours, but after that I don't think any resident wants their town to be a regional magnet for young inexperienced drivers, regardless of how many jobs they believe the "restaurant" will generate.
Isn't the road toll bad enough in the area? Roads leading into town are windy with 100km/h limits - a lethal combination for the young drivers who will form the majority of those utilising the 24/7 operation.
by reverb 22 Dec 2008, 6:33am | 426 views
Decision already made?
I think in practice the decision is already made. I hope I'm very wrong, but here's my reasoning.
When the land was purchased by a McDonalds-related company, the residents had already lost the fight. The simple fact now is that the company can just sit and wait for this application to be approved for years if required, while the residents are forced to stare at the current abomination of a site.
McDonalds are implicitly saying either approve this application, or have this derelict site in the middle of your town. What a choice!
Since the site is in such a state of disrepair and has no barriers to entry, the council should force demolition on public safety grounds, independent of this application's success. That way the residents can look at an empty site and say what they really want there.
by reverb 22 Dec 2008, 6:25am | 394 views
Social environmental health issues relating to Mc Donalds, O.B.C.T., public hospital, other services.
There are concerns that other social health and environmental considerations need to be considered here before approval. Perhaps Mc Donalds would like to modify its original application, in keeping up with the times, of lessening the carbon footprint, less resource use, greater community liaison, solar panels and hot water, community space and gardens, meeting the challenge of O.B.C.T., lack of public hospital facilities, mental health issues and other environmental health issues of the area ?
by ADVOCATE 15 Dec 2008, 6:59pm | 475 views
Social Impacts of McDonalds
We need Council and Mc Donalds to sit down with the community, especially young people,to nut out some ideas as to whether this is a good idea, that Mc Donalds is coming to town... We need a cinema and some other facilities for young and other members of the community. If this is to go ahead, we need strong advocacy by Councillors and staff to ensure we the community are compensated by all that is needed for the community ? Do we not ?
by ADVOCATE 15 Dec 2008, 6:15pm | 1006 views


