You might have learn in final week’s Herald that McDonald’s have utilized for planning permission to build a 24/7 drive by restaurant, with 39 house automobile park and 12m excessive illuminated signal, on the Tice’s Meadow and Tongham Ponds Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI), adjoining to Tongham Services on the A31/A331 roundabout.
The Tice’s Meadow Bird Group strongly object to this planning software.
The proposed website is wholly throughout the Tice’s Meadow and Tongham Ponds Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI), a regionally necessary wildlife haven the place over 200 chook species have been recorded.
The SNCI is a crucial inexperienced hall for wildlife and other people, which has already been eroded by development of the Tongham Services – any additional growth might render this very important pure artery useless, and materially hurt the character conservation pursuits of the SNCI.
The proposed website can be wholly inside land designated as Countryside within the Guildford Borough Local Plan, which describes the world as “an important open gap between Ash and Tongham, and the town of Aldershot to the west” and offering “a green corridor and tranquil setting with considerable biodiversity value”.
Tice’s Meadow Nature Reserve (Picture by Kyle Russell)
The proposed growth doesn’t require a countryside location; shouldn’t be proportionate to the character and scale of the location, its setting and countryside location; and can result in better bodily and visible coalescence between the Ash and Tongham city space and Aldershot.
The proposed restaurant may have a major unfavorable affect on many delicate and guarded habitats and species by: elevated disturbance; noise; visible affect; litter; odour; mild air pollution; and air air pollution.
The developer’s planning software fails to correctly deal with these issues, repeatedly ignoring the presence of two nature reserves bordering the location.
The proposed restaurant, and its 12 metre-high illuminated golden arches, will probably be extremely seen from the SNCI, the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Area of Great Landscape Value, and the native settlements at Tongham and Badshot Lea, and may have a unfavorable have an effect on on the amenity of each native individuals and wildlife.
The developer proposes to offset the injury they are going to trigger by erecting some chook and bat nest packing containers on land they personal to the north of the location.
An artist’s impression of the proposed McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant on the A331/ A31 Tongham companies (McDonald’s)
Restoration of this land to an ecology wealthy space was a planning situation for growth of Tongham Services – three years after the companies opened and it’s nonetheless not been accomplished.
What hope do we have now that the developer will maintain to any new guarantees they make?
We are encouraging all like minded native residents to object to the planning software through Guildford Borough Council’s planning web site – reference 23/P/01831.
We have additionally launched a petition to mirror the robust native opposition – greater than 1,100 individuals signed it throughout the first 24 hours. Please signal and share: https://chng.it/zLSS7YWKg7
If native residents, elected representatives and wildlife teams work collectively, we will cease this inappropriate growth, and defend this necessary inexperienced hall for future generations.
Tice’s Meadow Bird Group
