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Baltimore Road Townsend Street Skibbereen Co. Cork

REFUSED

Planning application 18/591

Cork - Cork County Council

Proposed Development

For development comprising the expansion and associated reconfiguration of the existing Skibbereen Lidl Store car park by removing 15 no. car parking spaces and providing 63 no. new car parking spaces (resulting in an overall increase of 48 no. car parking spaces) on undeveloped lands to the north east of the existing Skibbereen Lidl Store, a new pedestrian access and vehicular exit only onto Townsend Street, boundary treatments (incl. a reinforced concrete retaining wall with 1.8 metre high Paladine Fence fixed on top of retaining wall along north western site boundary), hard and soft landscaping, services (including 1 no. below ground attenuation tank) and all other ancillary and associated site development works above and below ground level, all at this site of 0.2666 ha

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Application Timeline

  1. Application received

    2 Oct 2018

  2. Decision: REFUSED

    30 Apr 2019

  3. Decision due

    1 May 2019

Application Details

Location
Baltimore Road Townsend Street Skibbereen Co. Cork
Applicant
N/A
Application Type
PERMISSION
Planning Authority
Cork County Council

Timeline

Registration Date
2 October 2018
Status
APPLICATION FINALISED
Decision
REFUSED
Decision Date
30 April 2019

Location

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18/530INCOMPLETED APPLICATION5 Sept 2018

Development comprising the expansion and associated reconfiguration of the existing Skibbereen Lidl Store car park by removing 15 no. car parking spaces and providing 67 no. new car parking spaces (resulting in an overall increase of 52 no. car parking spaces) on undeveloped lands to the northwest of the existing Skibbereen Lidl Store, a new pedestrian access and vehicular exit only onto Townsend Street, boundary treatments (incl. a reinforced concrete retaining wall with 1.8 metre high Paladine Fence fixed on top of retaining wall along north eastern site boundary), hard and soft landscaping, services and all other ancillary and associated site development works above and below ground level, all at a site of 0.2666 ha.

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