1 December 2023
It appears that the American fried chicken chain KFC is coming to North Sydney.
A development application has been lodged to gain Council permission to install KFC signage at the heritage building at 67-69 Mount St at Brett Whitely Place.
The site is no stranger to fast food having played host to a Hungry Jacks outlet for many years until it met a Covid era demise.
The building itself dates to 1855 and was used built for the Grand United Order of Oddfellows, a mutual help society.
The DA asks for permission to erect two KFC signs on the building. The application acknowledges that while the practice is “to limit signage to one instance per heritage item, this has not been historically the case with the subject building. Its last commercial tenant (Hungry Jacks) displayed multiple signs to non original parts of the frontage. Both flanking heritage items also display more than one sign. In light of the context—the North Sydney CBD—and the plethora of commercial signs in the vicinity of the subject place, the presence of more than one
at the subject place is not unsupportable.”
North Sydney has been a comparative fast food desert in recent years when compared to St Leonards and Chatswood. While Pizza Hut and Subway are present, KFC has never been present in North Sydney while an announced plan for a McDonalds on Miller St a few years ago never seemed to advance.