Planning application submitted for new Dublin primary school

The first new primary school for Cherrywood on Dublin's southside is a step closer. Hines has put in a planning application for the new school which will be located directly south-west of Tully Park. It would take in up to 700 primary pupils, and would have 24 classrooms, a special needs unit and a school hall. Once planning is granted, the development phase will be overseen by the Department of Education. The announcement has been welcomed by the Minister for Education & Skills, Richard Bruton, T.D.

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Iarnród Éireann submits planning application for new platform at Limerick Junction

Iarnród Éireann has submitted a planning application for a new platform at the Limerick Junction train station. It is expected to cost 3.5 million euro and is expected to be completed by mid-2019.

Spokesperson for Iarnród Éireann Jane Cregan says the expansion will allow for greater efficiency.

She said: "At present, we woukd have to hold a Dublin bound train outside of Limerick Junction until the Cork bound train has gone through or vice versa, so this will provide for greater efficiency of operations. "It will also mean that we will be installing - subject to planning permission being granted, a lift, stairs and bridge and at Limerick Junction."

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Concern at unprecedented growth of student housing

With demand for more of the several thousand students expected to enrol annually at Cork’s third-level colleges in the next decade to be accommodated in built-for-purpose housing, developers have responded with a raft of projects. Permission has been granted for a number of purpose-built student accommodation schemes in what Cork City Council member John Buttimer describes as a corridor from South Main St in the heart of the city to the lower gates of UCC at Western Rd. Another group of projects have been built, secured planning permission, or await approval either side of the main UCC campus, between The Lough and the Lee Fields at the Carrigrohane Road on the city’s western outskirts.

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Fast-track planning approved for 450 homes near Kildare-Dublin border

PLANNING PERMISSION HAS been granted for a major planning development near the Kildare-Dublin border. Ardstone Homes will build the 450 homes on a site near the Wonderful Barn monument in Leixlip after utilising the Strategic Housing Development scheme. SHD planning allows developments of over 100 homes go straight to An Bord Pleanala, speeding up the application process. It was introduced last year in response to the housing shortage.

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Proposed Dublin 15 mosque will ‘help all the community’

A Dublin-based neurosurgeon who has received planning permission to build one of the largest mosques in the State has acknowledged there was a lack of public consultation about the project ahead of an appeal by local residents. An Bord Pleanála has said the Shuhada Foundation of Ireland can build a four-storey mosque, community centre and primary school on the site of Warrenstown House, a former HSE facility in Blanchardstown, in west Dublin.

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Irish Water to seek planning permission for Shannon pipeline

 

Irish Water has rejected the concerns of hundreds of objectors to its plan to extract water from the river Shannon and pipe it to Dublin in a €1.3 billion project set to supply 40 per cent of Ireland’s population from 2025. Taking the water from Parteen basin on the Shannon in north Tipperary is the best way to ensure a sustainable water source for both Dublin and major towns in the midlands located close to the proposed 170km pipeline, and to provide sufficient capacity to allow for population growth and economic development up to 2050, Irish Water concludes in its latest evaluation of options published on Tuesday.

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College Green restrictions ‘could continue into 2019’

Traffic restrictions, which have seen the removal of services for thousands of Dublin bus passengers from Dublin’s College Green, are set to continue into 2019, Dublin City Council has warned. The unexpected length of last month’s An Bord Pleanála appeal hearing on the council’s plans for a €10 million civic plaza at College Green, means a decision on the project is not expected to be issued by the board until August or September, the council’s head of traffic management Brendan O’Brien has said. The board had been due to issue its decision on Friday of this week. The hearing on the council’s proposal to build the pedestrian and cycle plaza and ban all traffic, including buses and taxis, from accessing Dame Street through College Green opened on March 12th, and had been due to last for three days. However, it was not completed until March 29th.

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