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"Inappropriate and unsustainable" Ticknock plan - yet again
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Sunday February 08, 2015 23:31 by dublin rambler
DLR councillors to vote on Tuesday on isolation facility for elderly, hacking up the Wicklow mountains In 2012 public opposition forced the ditching of a plan for a "retirement village" on the side of the Dublin mountains, isolated from services and public transport and cut off by the M50, in an area normally zoned for agriculture and public amenity and widely used by the public. A previous plan for a private school on the site had been rejected for similar reasons in 2005. After the 2014 local elections the plan came back in a lightly tweaked form, with the developer's sister among a number of newly elected councillors supporting the project. A proposal to amend the development plan to include this project is due to be voted on this Tuesday evening, February 10th. Meanwhile some interesting shenanigans have developed. Indymedia regulars will be familiar with developer Rod McGovern and his plan for a "retirement village" in the middle of nowhere - with no access to public transport, cut off by the motorway and far away from anything else but in a location which he happens to own. The project has unsurprisingly been rejected by the planners and by the county council, but as a previous indymedia article noted, it just keeps coming back from the dead. Before the "retirement village" it was to have been a school - the project was rejected for the same reason, that it is a completely unsuitable location which benefits only the developer while cutting off a slice of the Dublin mountains. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Good news on Ticknock - after being deferred first till Weds and then till Thursday night the proposal was finally defeated by 23 votes against to 13 in favour. No word yet of who the developer's friends were in this particular case, but this now makes 3 times that attempts to make money out of this particular chunk of land have been defeated - once by the previous council, and once before that when the plan was to build a school there.
Hopefully now people who love the Dublin mountains will have a couple of years peace before the next variant of this particular "inappropriate and unsustainable" plan returns. Fair play to everyone who mucked in and contacted councillors on this to counter the astroturfing campaign.