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Planning questions for council

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Horizon Mall site, Limerick
The entrance to the abandoned development on the Dublin Road where the Horizon Mall project will be located.

by Bernie English [email protected]

LIMERICK city councillors want to be kept in the loop when it comes to developments such as the Opera Centre and the Horizon Mall.

At their monthly meeting last Monday, members of the Metropolitan District council asked for a briefing on the Horizon Mall project that was approved by An Bord Pleanála after the local authority voted against granting planning permission for the abandoned development site on the Dublin Road.

Cllr Maurice Quinlivan (SF) said the decision was “of concern to a lot of people. The planning permission says that it has to be completed by 2016 and I don’t think you could build a house in that time”.

Cllr James Collins (FF) said that the decision called into question the local authority’s policy to rejuvenate the city centre by attracting business and people in.

“Our policy isn’t having the effect we had hoped it would and it seems Bord Pleanála does not agree with it. If it’s not working, we need to know why and we need an update and questions answered”.

Cllr James Butler (FF) said he had seen the first tangible consequences of the decision to grant planning permission for the Horizon Mall.

“I was speaking to a property owner in town who had two people interested in leasing units and as soon as they heard about this decision, they withdrew”, he said.

Bernie English
Bernie Englishhttp://www.limerickpost.ie
Bernie English has been working as a journalist in national and local media for more than thirty years. She worked as a staff journalist with the Irish Press and Evening Press before moving to Clare. She has worked as a freelance for all of the national newspaper titles and a staff journalist in Limerick, helping to launch the Limerick edition of The Evening Echo. Bernie was involved in the launch of The Clare People where she was responsible for business and industry news.
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