Residents and ward councillors are celebrating victory over plans by a fast food giant to permanently extend its opening times to the early hours.

Bradford planners rejected an application by McDonald’s, on Rooley Lane, to open at 5am seven days a week until midnight, much to the relief of people living in nearby Parkside Road.

Little Horton councillor Alyas Karmani (Respect) said the whole community had been set against making the longer hours official, fearing it would have made anti-social problems even worse.

The Rooley Lane eaterie and takeaway had been trading from 5am to midnight on a temporary basis, but that permission was not made permanent by planners on Monday. The store will now go back to its previous opening times of 7am until midnight.

A McDonald’s spokesman said: “We are disappointed that our application to extend the opening hours at our Bradford Rooley Lane restaurant has not been approved.

“We want to serve our customers at the times that suit them, especially as more and more people are living outside of the nine-to-five routine.

“Whatever our opening hours may be, our main priority is to be a good neighbour and our door remains open to any member of the community who would like to discuss our business.”

Coun Karmani said: “The whole Parkside area has to put up with anti-social behaviour, with littering, speeding and drivers parking up on the roadsides in the estate to eat their fast food creating road hazards.

“If they had been given permission to stay open longer permanently this would have made things even worse.

“All three ward councillors were against any extension and we had the community behind us 100 per cent. No one wanted it. The idea was probably to attract in more motorway traffic because of its location just off the M606, but the noise for residents would not have been acceptable.

“We want to encourage businesses and enterprise, but when it comes at a cost of quality of life to residents then we’ve got to weigh it up.”

Bradford Area Planning Panel refused the application because of the amount of noise and disturbance customers would cause to residents.