Rutlands fight to remain McDonald's free..

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BrumJim

Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
It's OK, as they will be selling pheasant burgers. :rolleyes:

Ignoring the snobbery and complete out-of-touchness with real life, I'm delighted that she is more than happy to go to Grantham to pick up a burger or two, but is complaining about one in Rutland!

I don't like McDonalds. I don't like the company's ethos, and haven't been to one since I was married. However I'm equally mad about people who see Rutland as a National Park where the villages, lake, countryside and locals are there for their amusement. There are those in Oakham who would love to have a McDonalds, and not too sure why we should deny them this.

Like the idea of pheasant burgers, though. Perhaps some pub or restaurant in the area might like to try it?
 

Levo-Lon

Guru
Refurbing a local playground or road junction - planning gain - is contained in the application as a condition.

While it's tempting and easy to allege corruption, the process is reasonably open.

Councillors are limited by what they can regard as a 'planning consideration'.

The fact that a few posters on a cycling forum like to slag off the food to be provided will not be such a consideration.

Nor will competition in the market place be a reason to refuse an application.

After all, that's all the local traders are concerned about.

They dress it up with environmental cobblers about using artisanal coffee beans, but all they are really worried about is they will no longer be able to charge three quid for a drink that costs 20p.

I'm aware Rutland is a small place, but the number of public responses, for and against, is relatively low.

We had a bail hostel up here that got hundreds.

The low number suggests the application is not quite so controversial among the population as the protestors would like you to think it is.


Cheap food is always wanted.
Oakham is a nice town and has a nice centre.
There is a mukyd up the road in Melton Mowbray .

Out of town drive through shouldn't cause to much harm to local businesses but it will generate rubbish as they all do.

Nothing more sad than a takeaway hotspot at 5am ,litter everywhere.

Keeps people in jobs I spose
 

Levo-Lon

Guru
Indeed, but your post suggested it wasn't 'a few grand that can't be traced from a bank account'

You didn't read it properly.

I was just a contractor, vat registered.

The point is it's easy to give favours like a nice slap up meal in a swanky hotel...ect
 

Pale Rider

Legendary Member
Cheap food is always wanted.
Oakham is a nice town and has a nice centre.
There is a mukyd up the road in Melton Mowbray .

Out of town drive through shouldn't cause to much harm to local businesses but it will generate rubbish as they all do.

Nothing more sad than a takeaway hotspot at 5am ,litter everywhere.

Keeps people in jobs I spose

I agree, particularly about litter.

The councillors have done what they can by imposing a litter management plan as one of the many conditions.

One could be cynical as to the effectiveness of that, but that's an enforcement issue.

The councillors are strictly limited by what they can legally take into consideration as a reason for refusing an application.

They could have gone against their officers' advice and refused it anyway.

But they and the officers will know that if they refuse it on an illegal knee jerk - we think the burgers are crap - they will only lose on the inevitable appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.
 

Brandane

Legendary Member
Location
Costa Clyde
It was the French who coined the word "McJob" to describe any rubbish job like, er, flipping burgers or delivering pizzas.
Not that it matters especially, but it wasn't 'the French' who came up with McJob, it was Amatai Etzioni.
Yeh, the French would have come up with "McEmploi" - since they don't like to use English words (apart from "le weekend" and "car ferry"!).
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
Yeh, the French would have come up with "McEmploi" - since they don't like to use English words (apart from "le weekend" and "car ferry"!).
Don’t know when you were last in France, or, indeed, mainland Europe, but, in my experience, English words are widely used, particularly in adverts and slogans.
 
Never mind about Maccy D's and Rutland, where nobody lives. I heard today that Cornwall has no Greggs. :ohmy:

I was going to go there for a few days in March, but if this is true will now have to reconsider my plans.
 

Levo-Lon

Guru
Never mind about Maccy D's and Rutland, where nobody lives. I heard today that Cornwall has no Greggs. :ohmy:

I was going to go there for a few days in March, but if this is true will now have to reconsider my plans.


Now that is a tragic state of affairs..
I do like Greggs, they're doing rather well too according to yearly profit announcement
 

Mike_P

Guru
Location
Harrogate
And changing theme all HG (Harrogate) post codes remain unique post code wise by not having a Tesco Superstore in them; one was proposed got axed in Tescos cutbacks.
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
Never mind about Maccy D's and Rutland, where nobody lives. I heard today that Cornwall has no Greggs. :ohmy:

I was going to go there for a few days in March, but if this is true will now have to reconsider my plans.

Don't worry they've teamed up with Just Eat to deliver Greggs into Conrwall from strategic staging posts in Devon.
 
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