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Planning body overturned permission for 71 homes and refused social and Traveller accommodation plan
A proposed development on the Headford Road, comprising social housing and Traveller accommodation, was also refused as it was deemed to be overly reliant on cars.Twenty-minute walk Ms Higgins told Newstalk Breakfast on Wednesday that the Headford Road site was “a 20-minute walk from the city centre” and that she found the recent decisions by An Bord Pleanála to be “simply baffling at the moment”.
“I can’t understand why planning couldn’t be granted with conditions attached, such as upgrading the footpaths, roads and so forth. We all appreciate that the road at Keeraun needed to be upgraded, and there were active plans in place that the upgrade would happen in tandem with housing developments,” the Fine Gael councillor said. “An Bord Pleanála didn’t give Galway City Council an opportunity to explain that, they just flatly refused the application. When you pare it all back, we have an urgent requirement for housing.” Ms Higgins said the council and private developers “are willing to develop sites to meet our housing needs” but yet an independent agency of the State was “essentially working against our collective objective”. “They could have helped us find a way forward with conditional planning, which would have benefited the community two-fold,” she added.
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