Fast food restaurants offer 100 jobs
Two fastfood chains will build new restaurants in a Black Country town after securing planning permission.
Around 100 jobs will be created when McDonald's and KFC create new outlets near Stourbridge town centre.
Proposals were granted planning permission by members of Dudley Council's planning committee at a meeting this week.
The drive-thru branches will be built on land off Mill Race Lane once occupied by the Hayes factory before it was demolished four years ago.
Under the plan by developer Jumbuk Limited, three units would be built in total. An occupier for the third unit has not yet been found. Developers revealed the scheme hopes to create at least 65 full and part-time jobs at McDonald's and a further 40 positions at KFC.
The scheme would see the Big Mac burger chain's return to the town for the first time since it closed its branch in the High Street in 2008 after 20 years.
It comes as building work is well under way to create a new Premier Inn hotel and Brewers Fayre restaurant in nearby Birmingham Street, where around 65 jobs are expected to be created.
