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that the town in still in demand.
“It absolutely bodes well that a few developers are prepared to invest in the town. There is not much of a drop in house prices either in the town according to local auctioneers,” he ENG
“There are about 50 houses from small developers in the system look- ing for permission, some of them with three to six houses,” he added.
There are just less than 100 more
houses that have been refused per- mission due to a “resident only” EN Son
Councillors zoned the land at the back of the Church residential with a “resident only” clause so as to en- courage an increase in the year round population of the town, and discour- age holiday homes in that particular area.
The refusal for this development was appealed to An Bord Pleanala.
Meanwhile the three newest plan- ning applications to Clare County Council could see as many as 62 houses built in the coming months.
The newest of the applications is from the planning authority itself. Clare County Council is proposing to build 23 affordable houses with
ancillary road and public lighting at Dough on the Miltown Road.
In its submission to the application the NRA said it would not be making a further submission relying instead on Clare County Council to abide by policy on road frontage.
Helan Kennedy has applied to de- molish existing houses and to con- struct IO houses consisting of six semi-detached and four detached also on the Miltown Road.
This application is awaiting further information following a number of objections from neighbouring land- owners regarding the necessity to knock existing old cottages and ac- cess issues. Submissions also stated that the houses on the road are single storey houses and the development is
for two storey dwellings.
An Taisce suggested that redesign- ing the access road and reducing the number of houses would avoid the necessity to knock the existing cot- tage.
An application by Michael and Gerry Bond to build 29 houses at Dough is also under consideration with a decision due on September 3.
A number of objections also face this development including the close proximity of the effluent holding tank close to a nearby bed and breakfast.
Objections also relate to a sugges- tion that the land for development is lower than the road, the brick road is in bad condition and the density of the houses proposed could devalue other houses in the area.