Drive-thru McDonald’s plans at Suffolk Business Park on outskirts of Bury St Edmunds next to A14 move forward

Plans for a drive-through McDonald’s at a business park on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds have moved forward.

Several planning applications for various signs at the new restaurant at Suffolk Business Park, next to the A14, have been approved by West Suffolk Council.

They included six internally illuminated fascia signs, three internally illuminated booth signs and one internally illuminated display screen.

Two internally illuminated totem signs as well as four freestanding signs, an illuminated playland sign, two banner signs and 24 transport signs were also backed.

An officer report on one of the applications said the cumulative impact of the signs proposed would not appear visually cluttered or have a detrimental impact on the landscape.

Proposals for the drive-through McDonalds plus a Costa at Suffolk Business Park were given the go-ahead in March.

The £6million development is expected to generate about 135 new full and part time jobs.

The application, from The Churchmanor Estates Company, was the first phase of a leisure quarter on the 57 acre Suffolk Business Park, next to junction 45 of the A14.

German power tool manufacturing company Festool opened its £9.5million UK headquarters at the business park in August 2019.

A petrol station with a Budgens and Greggs also launched there in December.