McDonald’s tries again for new restaurant at Old Red Lion in Whinmoor

Fast food giant McDonald’s has re-submitted plans to open a new restaurant at the site of the empty Old Red Lion pub on York Road.

The revised proposals come after Leeds City Council turned down initial plans for the site earlier this year, after McDonald’s “failed to demonstrate” that there are no better sites that would be more suited for a restaurant.

There were also concerns over the 24-hour opening times and highways access.

Amendments in the new plans include reduced opening hours from 24-hours to 7am to 11pm. It also promises to plant 18 trees on the site and a further 37 in the adjacent woodland, and to build a pedestrian refuge island on the Baildon Drive junction and a traffic island on the A64 York Road to prevent overtaking.

The plans can be read in full here.