Planning for Dunshaughlin centre appealed to Bord Pleanala

Plans for a neighbourhood centre in Dunshaughlin, including a supermarket, offices, creche, café and medical centre already approved by Meath County Council, have been appealed to An Bord Pleanala by RGDATA, the representative organisation for independent family grocers. Evan and Peter Newell were granted permission for the neighbourhood centre on a 3.39 hectares site at Knocks and Readsland, Dunshaughlin, on 11th May. A second appeal was also lodged by Paul Healy. The proposed development includes three buildings of two to three storeys in height with a total gross floor area of 5,142 sq metres, accommodating a supermarket, six retail units, a café, 11 office units, a medical centre and a creche. Associated site development works include a new additional roundabout along the Dunshaughlin link road and associated feeder road extending to the east, with a T junction providing access to the site and a three-arm roundabout further east, facilitating westbound movements back to the link road. The plans also includes 196 surface car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, bin stores, an ESB substation, landscaping, fencing and wetland attenuation area, a connection to existing water mains on Drumree Road, signage and lighting. Further information was lodged in April following a request from Meath County Council. The appeal by RGDATA was lodged with Bord Pleanala on 3rd June and a decision is due on the application on 6th October next. Meanwhile, Meath County Council's refusal of planning permission to Kenneth Buttimer for two structures to accommodate 7,000 pigs at Dalystown, Castlerickard, Longwood, also has been appealed to Bord Pleanala. The proposed development included two structures to accommodate pigs, a staff office, toilet facilties, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and the carrying out of ancillary site development works in the new pig-rearing farmyard. The total floor area of the proposed development is 6,317 sq metres and has capacity for approximately 7,000 pigs. An environmental impact assessment (EIS) was submitted with the application. The application was lodged on 30th July 2009 and nine submissions were received. At the request of the council, further information was submitted in March and Meath County Council refused planning permission for the development on 7th May. An appeal against this refusal was lodged by Kenneth Buttimer on 3rd June and a decision on the application is due also on 6th October. The granting of planning permission to Boheranch Ltd for a 77-bedroom nursing home and associated accommodation at Dublin Road, Kells, has been appealed to the planning appeals board. The proposed development has frontage to the Dublin Road (N3) and the Headfort Road, and vehicular access is proposed from a new access point on the Headfort Road. The granting of permission was appealed by Larry and Elsa Walsh and others, Derek Bradley and Lloyd Fitzsimons. A decision is due on the appeal on 28th October. Meath County Council's granting of planning permission to David Tiernan for the construction of 17 houses on a site of 0.61 hectares at Donacarney also has been appealed to Bord Pleanala. Access to the site is proposed from the west from Church Road (R150) via the existing Blackhall Crescent estate. The appeal was lodged by Helen Martin and others and a decision is due on 26th October.