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Wealthy neighbours in Chelsea are furious at a bid to open an all-night McDonald’s on their doorsteps.

Objectors to the plan for 24-hour ser-vice at the King’s Road branch include an ex-president of Volvo and the wife of the chairman of the V&A Museum.

The fast-food restaurant is based in the former Chelsea Drugstore, which inspired Rolling Stones hit You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Its management has written to Kensington and Chelsea council requesting a certificate confirming it can open all hours.

Current opening hours are 5am to 11pm every day. Residents warn the change will mean violence, rubbish and noise will plague Royal Avenue, the piazza of multi-million-pound townhouses famed as the home of James Bond. They also fear it will set a precedent for other food outlets.

Resident Joy Fern wrote: “My family are already greatly inconvenienced by delivery vehicles, rubbish and inconsiderate patrons who choose my doorsteps as their personal benches to eat their McDonald’s and leave rubbish. The proposal will bring an increase in all the above, not to mention noise.”

Another objector is Georgia Coleridge, a healer who lives with husband Nicholas, president of publisher Condé Nast International and chairman of the V&A. She said: “Current opening hours are a nuisance. There are often big groups of teenagers hanging around who can be intimidating. Friends of my teenagers have been jostled and catcalled. I would not like this area to be a magnet for loitering in the small hours.”

Former Volvo president Tuve Johannesson and his wife Inger added: “McDonald’s total lack of discipline in relation to litter and noise should motivate withdrawal of existing permits.”

The Chelsea Drugstore’s glass and aluminium frontage shocked residents when it opened in 1968, a year before the Stones hit was released with the lyric: “I went down to the Chelsea Drugstore, to get your prescription filled.”

The three-storey complex included bars, food outlets, a chemist, newsstand, record store and boutiques and was open 16 hours a day, seven days a week before it closed in 1971.

Company director Martin Flash, secretary of Royal Avenue Residents Association, said: “A 24-hour fast-food outlet has no place in a residential neighbourhood.”

In its letter to Kensington and Chelsea the restaurant’s representative says: “The application is to seek confirmation that ... 24-hour opening would be lawful.” Councillors are expected to decide at a meeting on November 25.

McDonald’s was unavailable for comment.