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LOCALS IN RAHENY and Clontarf who objected to plans for a development of almost 400 houses at a site adjacent to St Anne’s Park are to be given back fees paid to Dublin City Council, after the developer made a clerical error on the planning application.
New Generation Homes’ contentious plan to build 381 houses at the site fell at the first hurdle this week, after it emerged the wrong name had been used in the application to the local authority.
‘Crekav Landbank Developments Ltd.’ was entered on the bid, instead of ‘Crekav Landbank Investments Ltd.’.
The Council found:
“As the applicant stated is not considered a legal entity the application does not comply with Article 22 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended). The application is therefore considered invalid.”
New Generation Homes confirmed on Thursday evening that the application would be re-submitted.
However, in the meantime, anyone who objected to the development will have their €20 observation fee returned.
They’re being told they can make use of the fee again if they want to object to next application submitted by the developer.
This letter is being sent out by the Council:
The site in question encompasses playing pitches that were owned by the Vincentian secondary school St. Paul’s College, but which were sold earlier this year to New Generation Homes. It’s proposed a dedicated all-weather floodlit sports field for the school and a new sports hall would also be built.
There has been widespread public opposition to the plans from locals in the area, and an I Love St. Anne’s campaign has been launched online to encourage people to lodge their own objections to the scheme.
Minister and local Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is amongst those opposed to it. The Dublin Bay North deputy said last week the plan was in breach of zoning regulations and that a development of this type was “excessive”.
New Generation Homes contends that the all-weather pitches and sports hall will be a resource for the community – however Ó Ríordáin argued in his letter to planning regulators that they “would not be fully accessible and open to the public”.
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What ìďìòt thought that this would be OK.
That is the most dreadful thing to happen, putting so many lives in danger. Heads should roll over this.
@Playmisty4me: What heads? If you were my boss and against policy I published private company records, should you be fired?
@Playmisty4me: but they won’t
If I want to pay off a few quid off my credit card on-line, I have to go thro three or four processes, before I can do it, yet the PSNI data was easily transferred to anyone who wanted to download it. Unbelievable lack of basis common sense
What a lawless state, the six counties! Liam Kelly, chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland said “some (PSNI) might be working for the security services in MI5″
The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill was introduced into parliament in September 2020, became law in the UK in 2021. This law provides MI5, in explicit terms, with the power, through its officers (those in MI5′s employ), to authorise its ‘agents’ to engage in conduct (including crimes at the very upper level of seriousness)that would normally constitute one criminal offence or another.
We know from the De silva report that agents acting on information given to them by security services went on to murder Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane and their crime was and is covered up by these “security” services. De Silva concluded – inter alia – that he was ‘left in significant doubt as to whether Patrick Finucane would have been murdered by the UDA in February 1989 had it not been for the different strands of involvement by elements of the State’
These agencies are acting outside the law and, incredibly, are working alongside Irish agencies in many cases.
It’s time to evaluate our cooperation with British security services and, just maybe, begin acting like a lawful republic
@John John: Provo or not, it is illegal to murder someone. If the British state was involved, it is even worse.
Storming needs to return to work and earn their pay. Northern Ireland have many issues that need to be addressed now not somewhere down the road
@5PHcsqEN: my comment should say Stormont
That’s a lot of sensitive data, open online for 3 hours. The online server will have logfiles indicating if any of the data was accessed or downloaded. The very least they’ll see is the number of times the active online page was accessed, I would expect that the webserver log will also give details of IP numbers. A little detective work required to estimate the possible extent of the damage, and estimate the risk properly.
@Tom Hogarty: for sure , but also raises some bigger concerns for the levels of cyber security in the force / if one individual is able to access this level of data this should trigger all sorts of alarms for their internal processes / extra embarrassing that it’s the most sensitive data for the whole force including mi5 operatives / frankly unbelievable and exposes the risk that one crooked worker could be bribed to access all this valuable data in the first place / safe to assume this ain’t cyber security best practice by the police of all organisations / mind boggles
@Dave Hammond: come on, the IT support guys would have had ample access to their dbms at anytime given what is now known
Amateurs and a failed state. The hits just keep on coming
Sad to think that both of the police forces on this island have become afraid of what the thugs & terrorists might do to them, while they (the thugs) have zero such concerns. Well done the civil liberties (without responsibilities) groups.
No “four eye principle” ???
Management level needs replacing.
i hope no IRA cowards got any info
@TomDuffy: Fortunately for you, you can hide behind your keyboard typing about ‘IRA côwârds’.
Oh no. Anyway
His majesty finest
HI John john
Wow, there’s a new strain of Covid and I couldn’t give a ŞΗϯҭ
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