The store is currently open until 10pm at night but wants to extend opening hours to 6am to midnight Sunday to Wednesday and 6am to 4am Thursday to Saturday.

However, one angry woman who lives directly opposite the fast food outlet says residents already experience noise and nuisance from motorists on the car park, people use the car park as a public toilet, food and rubbish is discarded in nearby gardens, and some properties on Norwood Drive have had food thrown at their windows.

Suzanne Smith, who has lived on Morecambe Road for two years, said: "The current hours are sufficient.

"The residents are bitterly opposed to the hours being extended."

A spokesperson for McDonald's said: "Based on our experience of other similar locations, we have every reason to believe that opening for longer at our Morecambe Road restaurant will be popular with our customers.

"If our application is granted, we are only planning to open the Drive Thru at this particular restaurant after 11pm."

n View the application online under the number 08/00397/VCN in the planning applications section at www.lancaster.gov.uk
Objections to the application have to be lodged with Lancaster City Council by April 24.