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THE proposed controversial right of way accessing Doughmore beach is to be part of an oral hearing.
Kilrush area councillors voted for the proposal outlining plans to close part of the Caherfeenick road and open a new pedestrian access through Doonbeg Golf Club on to the beach, to go on public display.
An inspector will then be promoted and an oral hearing held on the is- sue.
Under the proposal, a right of way on to the beach will be handed over to Doonbeg Golf Club Limited in exchange to alternative access to the beach and further conditions.
Clare County Council executives maintain that the proposal will have no affect on a high court judicial re- view taken by the golf club against An Bord Pleanala.
Under the proposal, which must fi- nally get the approval of the elected members of the council, the right of way over part of the public road at Caherfeenick, Cree will be extin- guished for 120 metres.
The extinguishment will only take place when certain criteria are met
by the golf club. Among the commit-
ments is the provision of a car park County Council’s specifications and
of 35 spaces constructed to Clare
supervised by local authority staff. An area of land including the car
park and a further estimated 0.6 acres for 35 more car park spaces must also be transferred into the ownership of Clare County Council.
A new “turn table at the new termi- nal point” on the Caherfeenick road to Clare County Council’s specifica- tion in size and standard must also be constructed and bollards installed.
“A clear legal grant of a pedestrian right of way to be given by Doonbeg Golf Club to Clare County Council from the turn table” at the end of the road to the beach is another part of the controversial proposal.
A document circulated to the coun- cillors also points to “a clear legal grant of a vehicular right of way for emergency vehicles” to be given by the golf club to Clare County Coun- cil and this right of way to be three metres wide. The final criteria to be met by the golf club states that Clare County Council is to be “indemni- fied against any claim on the Doon- beg Golf Club property by Doonbeg Golf Club.”