Plans for a McDonalds restaurant and multifaceted 24-hour service station for Kyneton’s northern gateway have been revealed.
A stand-alone McDonalds restaurant and drive-through is proposed for the Pipers Creek Road and Edgecombe Road corner along with a 26-space car park and associated signage.
A service station with a convenience store, trucker’s lounge and second – yet to be identified – convenience restaurant with drive-through would also occupy the site, which has a southern interface with Post Office Creek.
The service station would include an 86-space car park with five truck bays located along the southern boundary.
The 22ha Edgecombe Road site contains two areas split by Pipers Creek Road that are zoned for commercial and rural living.
The application is the second anticipated in a proposed major three-part development for the area.
Macedon Ranges Shire Council approved a 43-lot subdivision for Edgecombe Road in December while a third application is expected early this year for a large trade supplier.
Consultant for the applicant Rob Milnar explained to councillors in December that the application had been intentionally made in three parts to enable work to begin on less controversial elements.
He said the 43-lot subdivision, now approved, was seen as the “relatively uncontroversial part of the application” and they anticipated other parts of the application may be “more controversial”.
The application is now on exhibition and open for public comment.
