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PLANS have been lodged for a fur- ther 226 homes in the eastern out- skirts of Ennis, bringing the poten- tial number of new homes in the area to almost one thousand.
One of the country’s biggest home builders, McInerney Homes Ltd, has lodged plans for a €56 million devel- opment at Knockaderry, Roslevan.
The McInerney Homes application joins that of Crystal Partners for al- most 700 homes at Gaurus.
The first phase of the Crystal appli- cation is for 471 homes in a site that takes up 75 per cent of the Gaurus townland.
The McInerney Homes application consists of 136 semi-detached, 24 detached and 66 terraced homes.
Yesterday, Cllr Brian Meaney (GP) said that the applications were pre- mature when the current infrastruc- ture deficit in Ennis was taken into account.
“I believe that these applications are premature and I wonder if they are just kite flying exercises by the developers.”
Cllr Meaney said that the environ- ment minister, John Gormley, was to shortly introduce a new green paper
on local government to ensure that unsustainable development would not be permitted.
A site nearby to that of McInerney Homes was, last year, the subject of a Finn Properties application for 100 homes. The town council re- fused planning permission to due limitations of the town’s sewerage system. The council partly granted Finn Properties permission to extend Oakleigh Woods by 51 homes. Per- mission for 115 others was refused because of the sewerage constraints.
In an internal memo recommend- ing refusal, Town Engineer, Tom Tiernan said, “While I have no ob- jection in principle to the overall pro- posal it is impossible to approve it in its entirety at this stage.
“With a view to being in a position to accommodate development to a very limited degree at various loca- tions throughout the town, it won’t be possible to consider approval for this CCAVoaleyeyentooelmpes limo) 11N0Ko A Ae