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CLARE County Council has granted planning permission for 14 houses at Dun Aras Avenue in Shannon despite strong local opposition. Ballycasey Property Developments Ltd’s planning application was granted permission subject to 25 conditions. It is now open to the objectors to appeal the Council decision to An Bord Pleanála should they wish to do so. Among the conditions of planning is a requirement for a payment of €77,686 to the Council “in respect of public infrastructure and facilities benefiting the development”. The developers are also required to provide a cash surety of €70,000 and there is a further requirement for a Special Development Contribution of €20,000 to be made to the local authority. Another condition included states, “The open spaces shall be developed for and devoted to public use and shall be kept free of any development, save for the proposed picnic area. “When the development is being taken in charge, the public areas including the open spaces that have …

PERMISSION sought for works at a site off the N68 that already featured unauthorised development has been refused, writes Owen Ryan. Cos Wholesale Ltd has been denied planning permission to partially demolish, renovate and extend an existing commercial building at Darragh North. The Clare County Council planner’s report into the application noted that the subject site measuring 0.572 hectares is located in the rural townland of Darragh North. It is situated to the north of the N68 national secondary road at a point where the 100kmph speed limit applies. The planner’s report stated, “The site accommodates a petrol filling station (and associated retail outlet), a car sales garage and forecourt and a vacant commercial unit. “The area to the immediate east of the vacant unit comprises a rough graveled area with concrete hard stand areas on the other areas within the site. There is a right hand turning lane into the site on the national road. There is a single …

PLANNING permission has been granted for the development of four houses at Holland Street, Liscannor, on the proviso they are for permanent residents only. A planner’s report on the application by John Vaughan says that the site comprises two parcels of land on the north side of the street. Planning has been granted subject to nine conditions, one of which is that the dwellings be for permanent occupation only. Another condition requires that the buildings “shall be single storey or single storey with attic accommodation and shall have regard to the design and character of the built environment in the vicinity of the site.” This is said to be required in the interests of visual amenity. Another condition requires that the existing road boundary “be retained in its entirety except where its removal is required for the construction of an entrance to serve the dwellings”. “Side walls and piers of the proposed entrance shall be tied into the existing roadside …