The turmoil caused by so many false starts in improving the lot of businesses in Blyth Town Centre is being attacked on social media by residents of Cowpen and commented on with fear from residents of Blyth’s beach area.
This latest debacle has been caused through McDonalds restaurant making an application to the County Planning department to extend its opening hours at its Cowpen Road franchise. This fast food depot has plagued folk living in this residential area with late evening trade blighting homes with noise from revving service users' vehicles, headlights shining directly into some local people's homes and revelry seemingly unending.
Since Covid the enormous growth of home delivery has also been a cause for concern by residents as delivery drivers race away from site to ensure food is delivered hot to their customers.
In the knowledge that any objection to this planning application may be a catalyst for McDonalds to take a view on re-siting, homeowners in the Blyth Beach area of the Town have taken to social media to ensure that County Hall planners don’t deliver those changes anywhere near their homes as the business growth in that area would look quite inviting to McDonalds investors.
People from both residential areas believe its time the Blyth Town Team led by Alan Ferguson OBE and Cllr. Richard Wearmouth began to deliver on their long promised improvements to Blyth Town Centres local and in particular night time economy.
Developing a new fast food range of restaurants including a drive through McDonald's restaurant in the Town Centre would ensure evening trade growth in an area almost completely made up of commerce with great car parking access enhancing other surviving businesses who may also wish to open later at weekends to bring new life into a town that's suffered more than most.
Think again Northumberland before blighting areas that aren’t able to take any more commercial abuse.
