Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 60 - July 1999Back to list of articles in this issue

McDonalds

A campaign by concerned local residents and parents has forced McDonalds to withdraw their planning application. The corporation had intended to create a drive-through McSewer with its main vehicle entrance opposite a primary school right next to a suburban accident-blackspot junction on Liverpool's busy Smithdown Rd. Petitions garnered several thousand signatures, home-made posters were dotted around the neighbourhood, and the McFilth were tipped off by council officials shortly before the meeting in which their application looked certain to be knocked back. This enabled them to maintain their 'never refused planning permission' boast - funny how co-operative council jobsworths become when faced with big corporations.