DA for second McDonald’s at Maryborough before Fraser Coast council
Plans for a new McDonald’s to be built next to a Bruce Hwy service station can be revealed after an application to a Queensland council got the green light to progress to the next stage. DETAILS.
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Maryborough will get its second McDonald’s restaurant if plans for the fast-food giant to be built at a Bruce Hwy site are approved.
The new store would be in the same block currently occupied by a Caltex service station, Oliver’s food outlet and Bakehouse 13 at the vacant lots 52-53 Enterprise Circuit – an estate that can be veered into from the highway at Maryborough West.
The new store, drive-through, McCafe, two-storey play centre and 30-space carpark would cover 2800m2.
Documents submitted to the Fraser Coast Regional Council by McDonald’s Australia Limited show the application for the new store has moved through initial stages and is now entering the “public notification” period.
While the application is for a “material change of use” (the space where the store would go is currently designated for a service station), McDonald’s submits it’s not a major change because it previously had a store in the same area many years ago.
According to the documents the front signage will face the Bruce Hwy and the site design “provides significant queuing space for vehicles using the drive-through service without any identified conflict with the operation of the adjoining land and movement/parking areas”.
A date for the development to be completed should it be approved has not yet been confirmed.
It follows a flurry of franchise news for the Heritage City which is also awaiting its first Guzman Y Gomez store and this welcomed the arrival of a 7-Eleven and the relocation and revamp of the local Red Rooster.
The Fraser Coast is already home to three McDonald’s restaurants – one in central Maryborough next to the Station Square shopping centre and two in Hervey Bay (Pialba and Urangan).
It’s understood another McDonald’s is also likely to eventually go into a new development north of Hervey Bay on the Pialba Burrum Heads Rd.
The closest Bruce Highway stores are at Childers to the north and Gympie to the south.
The 15-day public notification period for the project began this week and plans can be viewed on the Fraser Coast Council website.
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