Land for drive-thrus

Compact plots of 0.12 to 0.5 ha, at least 30 m across, fronting an A road that carries 15,000 or more vehicles a day, and away from schools.

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  1. 0.12 to 0.5 ha
  2. Compact
  3. At least 30 m across
  4. Fronting an A road (within 20 m, none inside it) with 15,000 or more vehicles a day
  5. Away from schools
  6. No housing estate or village on it
BodelwyddanDenbighshire Site size0.26 ha (0.6 acres)Distance to an A road3 mRoad with a traffic countA55Widest point43 mUnder buildingsNone Open this site on the map

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Roads and traffic
Distance to a motorway and to an A road, and the daily traffic count on the road where the Department for Transport counts it.
Shape and ground
Width at the widest point, how compact the plot is, its slope and the share in each flood zone.
The town it serves
The population of the built-up area, and spare demand capacity at the nearest primary substation.

Why these rules

Drive-thru operators ask for 0.3 acres or more on arterial roads with 15,000 vehicles a day; a drive-through restaurant is a main town centre use, so outside a centre the sequential test applies (NPPF, August 2026, TC3), and national policy refuses hot food takeaways within a reasonable walk of schools (HC5), for which 400 m is the distance many councils use.

The 30 m is Plota's: narrower plots beside A roads were verges. Housing estates and villages are left out (at most 10 addresses a hectare and 50 in all): 95% of housing sites have more than 11 a hectare and half of industrial sites under 5. Woodland is left out.

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Some of the sites the search returned on 10 November 2026. Each opens on the map with its record.

Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.

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