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Aerial images show the progress of a town’s fourth McDonald’s as bosses reveal when the restaurant is set to open. Groundworks on the controversial new outlet in Chart Road, Ashford, are now underway. It comes five months after KentOnline reported contractors being seen cutting back vegetation and an excavator and materials being delivered to the plot. The fast-food branch, next to the ‘tank roundabout’ and former Fiat dealership, will join the chain’s existing ones in Eureka Park, the high street and Orbital Park – the latter said to be the company’s busiest drive-thru in Europe. A spokespers…

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