An Bord Pleanla

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACTS 2000 TO 2010

North Tipperary County Planning Register Reference Number: 10/510328 An Bord Pleanla Reference Number: PL 22.238796

APPEAL by Tom and Paddy Harty care of TH Engineering and Planning Consultants Limited of OBriens Bridge, County Clare against the decision made on the 25th day of March, 2011 by North Tipperary County Council to refuse permission.

PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT: Construction of 12 number single storey dwellinghouses, new entrance and internal road-ways, storm water attenuation system, connection to foul sewer, landscaping and all associated site works. This development is proposed as phase 1 of a proposed 3 phase development at Ballycraggan, Puckane, Nenagh, County Tipperary, as amended by the revised public notice received by the planning authority on the 10th day of February, 2011.

DECISION REFUSE permission for the above proposed development based on the reasons and considerations set out below.

MATTERS CONSIDERED In making its decision, the Board had regard to those matters to which, by virtue of the Planning and Development Acts and Regulations made thereunder, it was required to have regard. Such matters included any submissions and observations received by it in accordance with statutory provisions.

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REASONS AND CONSIDERATIONS 1. Notwithstanding that the proposed development is zoned for residential development, it is situated in a peripheral location served by a poor road system, lacking public footpaths or lighting, and development on this scale would not represent a logical sequential addition to the overall development of this attractive village and would, therefore, be contrary to the Sustainable Residential Development in Urban Areas Guidelines for Planning Authorities issued by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in May, 2009. The proposed development would represent a haphazard, piecemeal and uncoordinated development that would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area. It is considered that the sightlines at the junction of the proposed access road and public road are severely restricted and the traffic movements generated by this proposed development would result in the creation of traffic hazard to road users. The proposed development would, therefore, be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area.

2.

Member of An Bord Pleanla duly authorised to authenticate the seal of the Board.

Dated this

day of

2011.

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