Hastings does not need another KFC!

Restaurant Brands has applied for resource consent to demolish 914–916 Heretaunga St East (the old Vege Shed and Women’s Fitness Studio) and build a new drive-through KFC — open 10am until midnight, seven days a week, with a giant 8-metre-high illuminated bucket sign.

We already have a KFC in Hastings. Putting another one at the opposite end of Heretaunga Street will:

• Disrupt neighbours with late-night traffic, noise, light, and odours — right against their fences.
• Harm local small businesses, like the Heretaunga Superette, who can’t compete with multinational fast-food giants.
• Undermine community health, in a city already struggling with high rates of diet-related illness.
• Erode progress made on the East end of Heretaunga Street, turning it into another fast-food strip.

Neighbours were never consulted about this. Restaurant Brands is asking the Council to treat this application as “non-notified,” meaning the community might not even get a say.

Our Demand

We call on Hastings District Council to:

1. Publicly notify this application so the community can have its voice heard.
2. Decline consent for a second KFC in Hastings.

Hastings deserves better. We need to support local business, protect residents, and uplift the health and mana of our city — not hand our streets over to multinational fast-food chains.

Add your name to stop a second KFC in Hastings East. Together, we say: “Cluck, NO!”