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CLARE County Council and Ennis Town Council are prohibiting major new housing schemes in the town be- cause the public sewage works are in too poor a state to cope with further ESET Ken
The councils have refused planning for three big residential develop- ments in the last week including one at Gaurus which was to be the coun- ty’s largest ever housing scheme. De- velopments at Knockaderry on the Tulla Road and at Ballycorey on the Galway Road were also blocked.
Deficiencies in the sewage works and, in particular, at the main treat- ment plant at Clonroadmore, was the main reason given for the refusals.
“The capacity of this plant is now stretched to the extent that it would be inappropriate to approve any fur- ther significant developments which
would be dependent on it,” said Tom Tiernan, Ennis Town Engineer.
A €75 m replacement plant at Clareabbey, is not expected to be op- erational until 2012, raising the pros- pect that major developments will be constrained until then.