Britain's first Burger King drive-thru to be transformed (From Sutton Guardian)
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Britain's first ever Burger King drive-thru to be transformed in Sutton High Street
10:00am Wednesday 13th March 2013 in News By James Pepper
The proposed new site, looking away from the High Street towards Rosehill. Pic from Assael Architecture
The site of the first ever Burger King drive-through is set to be transformed into hotels and shops.
A 103 bedroom hotel as well as retail space on the ground floor has been proposed for 324-340 Sutton High Street by architect Assael.
The public was given the first glimpse of the plans during last week's Sutton Local Committee meeting.
The site has been derelict since Burger King moved out in January 2011.
It comes after a £50m development from LXB was announced for the old gas works and Zurich Building site in November.
Planning approval was granted for the Burger King site in January 2012 for a 103 bedroom hotel, but the current proposals are for a residential and retail scheme.
The new scehme will feature two retail units at ground floor with frontage onto the High Street and 40 residential apartments on the upper floors with a mix of unit sizes from one to three bedrooms.
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Comments(8)
Stridesy
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4:27pm Wed 13 Mar 13
rs.something needs to be done about the high street and the increasing number of empty shops.
ResidentTony
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6:17pm Wed 13 Mar 13
The brown-coloured image will occupy the space where the vacant BK currently is. After that is the Prince Regent pub, to which the hotel will be adjacent.
It's obviously a leap forward from zero out of ten to about eight or nine out of ten. The architecture is decent and contemporary in design and the whole thing is just what Sutton needs more of. (No doubt one of the wackier people who post on this website will disagree with me : -)
As to the (soon to be?) empty Blockbusters, perhaps Majestic Wine Warehouse would like the site - it's the sort of building they trade out of, having as it does a useful little car park at the back. Alternatively demolish it, as it is one of Sutton's least attractive buildings, and redeveop it into a small block of flats, or extend the green area even perhaps. Changing the fascia board from Blockbuster's one to Majestic Wine's one would be a huge improvement, even if the current building is retained.
Monstermunch17
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5:26am Thu 14 Mar 13
Please tell us the links you have to this development, financial or otherwise, so we can continue this discussion on an honest basis.
There is already 'retail space' in Sutton - it's increasing by the day, as the big supermarkets, (and online shopping), continue to decimate our neglected High Street. This project, with a supermarket central to the plans, will not fix this problem but add to it.
But hey, a small number of people will get richer, at the expense of the rest of us. Maybe even Resident Tony. If he is actually a resident, let's hope he spends some of it locally.
GreenBrown
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4:52pm Thu 14 Mar 13
No to all developments at the moment. Too many people already in and around London. We don't want to attract anymore. Too many people already in Sutton. You build flats and people move in, run out, build some more and on and on it goes. Time to stop this nonsense. Just need someone strong enough to say and do what needs to be done in this country.
Tubby Jim
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10:04pm Thu 14 Mar 13
ResidentTony
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10:30pm Thu 14 Mar 13
Monstermunch17
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5:06am Fri 15 Mar 13
Michael Pantlin says...
3:32pm Wed 13 Mar 13