€200m Mullingar plan appealedThe IMC cinema group and Shannon Regional Fisheries Board are two of eight parties to appeal a €200 million residential, shopping and entertainment scheme beside Mullingar town centre in Co Westmeath.
Rickaton (Construction) Ltd, whose directors are Christopher Bennett, John Bennett, Eugene Moor and Michael Piggott, are proposing 80 apartments, 58 shops, a multi-screen cinema, restaurant, café and cultural building at Blackhall and Bleachyard.
IMC has opposed the 1,000-seat cinema saying it "fails to recognise the existence of the cinema at Lakepoint", and would result in an oversupply of cinema seats in the catchment area, "thereby undermining the operational stability of the Lakepoint Centre and possibly diverting trade from Longford, Tullamore, and Athlone".
Shannon Regional Fisheries Board has asked that a 10-metre buffer zone be established either side of the River Brosna to protect the brown trout population. It also asks that a condition of planning be that the Mullingar sewerage treatment improvement scheme be completed before the residential element of the scheme is occupied.
Over 200 homes for Carrickmines
Glenamuck Developments has submitted a planning application to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for a residential scheme at Ashwood Farm in Glenamuck, Carrickmines, Dublin 18. The proposal for the 8.3-acre site beside Bective Rugby Club is to demolish a house and outbuilding for 201 residential units, including 147 apartments in three six-storey over basement blocks, 64 three, four and five-bed houses, and a crèche.
New plan for 3.45-acre D6W site
Doncot Developments is submitting a planning application to Dublin City Council for 152 houses and apartments on a 3.45-acre site at St Pancras Works on Mount Tallant Avenue, Terenure, Dublin 6W. The company, whose directors are Michael Blaney, Millicent Blaney and Patrick Blaney, is looking to build a seven-block development to include three commercial units and a crèche. The development would rise to six storeys and incorporate 14 four-bed terraced houses, as well as a mix of one, two and three-bed apartments.
