A NEW McDonald’s ‘drive-thru’ fast food restaurant opens at Chelston next Wednesday at 10am.

The single-storey restaurant will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, bringing 65 jobs to the town, equivalent to 45 full-time workers.

It occupies a near-acre plot at Westpark 26, immediately opposite the Shell petrol station and Budgens convenience story. An application for the restaurant was approved by planners at the end of April and the building has gone up in less than four months.

Westpark 26 has become a prime site for businesses because of its proximity to the M5. In recent years, planners have allowed a Costa, Budgens, Subway, Anytime Fitness gym, Shell petrol station and the new Wellesley Hospital extension to be built there. A number of smaller commercial traders also occupy units on the site.