13/5641
CONDITIONALCork - Cork County Council
Proposed Development
The development will include extending the existing Wildlife Park to include the development of approx 10.5 Ha of additional lands for which permission for development was previously granted under S/03/2273. The development works will include the construction of 17 no. buildings which includes 13 buildings for animal housing, an educational/viewing building, an entrance ticket building with small souvenir shop, a restaurant with public toilets, and an animal dung storage building. It also includes the extension of an existing pond, the construction of two new ponds and a connecting canal to a wetland that will provide a natural vegetative filtration system using halotolerant plant species. It includes the completion and extension of existing internal roadways, construction of pathways including a raised walkway, modification and addition to existing landscaping, preservation works to disused lime kiln, underground services, re-configuration of roadway markings and signage at main entrance from the public road, and construction of flood prevention measures to the existing wildlife park lands and to the additional lands by the construction of an earth berm, repairing sea wall and reconstructing sluice system.
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Application received
23 Aug 2013
Decision: CONDITIONAL
15 Oct 2013
Decision due
17 Oct 2013
Grant issued
20 Nov 2013
Application Details
- Location
- Fota Wildlife Park Foaty Island Carrigtwohill
- Applicant
- N/A
- Application Type
- PERMISSION
- Planning Authority
- Cork County Council
Timeline
- Registration Date
- 23 August 2013
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- CONDITIONAL
- Decision Date
- 15 October 2013
- Grant Date
- 20 November 2013
Location
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The development will include extending the existing Wildlife Park to include the development of approx 10.5 Ha of additional lands for which permission for development was previously granted under S/03/2273. The development works will include the construction of 17 no. buildings which includes 13 buildings for animal housing, an educational/viewing building, an entrance ticket building with small souvenir shop, a restaurant with public toilets, and an animal dung storage building. It also includes the extension of an existing pond, the construction of two new ponds and a connecting canal to a wetland that will provide a natural vegetative filtration system using halotolerant plant species. It includes the completion and extension of existing internal roadways, construction of pathways including a raised walkway, modification and addition to existing landscaping, preservation works to disused lime kiln, underground services, re-configuration of roadway markings and signage at main entrance from the public road, and construction of flood prevention measures to the existing wildlife park lands and to the additional lands by the construction of an earth berm, repairing sea wall and reconstructing sluice system. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning ref 13/5641, an EIS was submitted with the application.
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