Planning Reference Number 198010, Part 8, Limerick City & County Council

I wish to make a submission on the above application number

I strongly oppose to the above application on the grounds of

1) The people of Adare have only been shown the proposed plans for the part 8, what about the overall plan for the other 10-12 acres. The rumour is that it has been sold to Genesis for €9million. Surely the people of Adare are entitled to see what the overall plan is going to be for this land.

2) Does Adare need another housing Estate?? Adare already has Abbeyview, Manor Court, Desmond Drive, Deerpark, The Heritage, The Village Estate, Limetree Avenue, Manor Brook, Blackabbey Gate, Desmond Drive, Woodlands, Fishermans Wharf, Abbeyville, Embury Close.

3) There is also an application in (Ref:19/600) for 9 New houses in Blackabbey Creamery Site, There is another application in at the back of the new Carpark across from the boys school, Maddens Land (Ref:19/684) for 17 residential units comprising of houses and apartments. 50 more houses to go beside Manor Brook estate. 40 houses in Manor Brook which haven’t been moved into yet.

4) The layouts of the 2 proposed developments under this Part 8 do not show a lot of green space for kids to play. The houses are all up on top of each other. Parking is also very limited.

5) Where the proposed 18 No.houses and 8 plots for affordable house are going on the Rathkeale road entrance, this is very close to traffic lights. The N21 is completely blocked up every day from coffeys cross at clonshire to Monearla at the end of the motorway. How can you allow an estate entrance onto a national road in Adare that has 20,000 vehicles per day travelling through it. Any slight crash or hold up in Adare causes massive delays. If these lanes are full, how do you expect people to get in or out of these estate entrances. They will never have correct sigh lines coming out of these proposed entrances because they have to go through a lane of traffic to get out onto the other lane. Cars will have to break and this will cause crashes. And if they are waiting to get into the estate from the village side, they are causing delays back the road which will affect the traffic lights. There has been umpteen accidents at these lights in recent years since they were installed. Councillors, please ask for accident statistics along this section of road and please ask how many times the lights have been hit since they were erected.

6) At present there is a right turning lane at the traffic lights to go into the manorfields/pitch & putt/The Village estate/Manorbrook estate/back gates to Adare Manor Hotel. This was all done as part of Adare Manor’s application submitted in 2003 (Ref 03/1384). 2 No. semi detached Houses (Fitzgeralds and Doodys) were knocked at the traffic lights and the stone wall opposite the Graigue houses were knocked and set back to put in traffic lights/right turning lane and to make the junction bigger. This was tapered back as far as where the entrance is to the new planning application. This entrance was never there before. This was put in as part of the Adare Manor planning permission in 2003. This entrance should never have been granted. This had nothing to do with the manor entrance to the estates/pitch and putt and manor fields.

7) In relation to the proposed entrance across from the boys school, the council are just after building a 33 space carpark that is barely used because it takes too long for people to get in and out of the carpark. This is because of the large volumes of traffic on the national road. Now the council want to put in an access road leading to Deerpark estate, more houses, dig up the carpark that was constructed a few months. This is bad planning and a waste of taxpayers money. This road will become a rat-run from the blackabbey road to the boys school. This won’t become an estate road, this will be a road for boyracers at night time.

8) The one thing that I find very unusual about this Part 8 planning application that the council are submitting is that only recently another application has gone in (Ref:19/684) in the same location for 17 units, a few weeks later the council submit their application and then there is an article in the limerick leader on the 14th Nov which Cllr Bridie Collins said that there will be a sewer line going from the village hall as far as this carpark and it will be starting in January. Planning Ref: 19/684 and the Councils Part 8 Planning for this location hasn’t even been granted yet. What are the council up to??????

9) Do the council not know there is going to be a safety issue here outside the boys school if Maddens application and the councils application is granted. There will be huge volumes of traffic coming in and out of a carpark and estate entrance and its right beside the school/retirement village & pedestrian crossing. Someone is definitely going to get injured or killed. Has T.I.I. not commented on the safety of this??? The councillors can’t agree to this application on the grounds of health and safety. There are too many people dying on our roads and this is an accident waiting to happen.

10) Have the council got future traffic figures onto a national road for these 2 entrances if down the line the 17 acres is fully developed.

11) The people of Graigue Adare (Rathkeale road) have been living along this road for over 50 years, the council had promised on several occasions that they would put in a sewer line at the back of the houses. There are big issues with the existing sewerage network and treatment plant in Adare. People of Abbeyview Estate have complained on several occasions of the foul lines being blocked. How can the council grant more applications until these problems have been resolved.

12) Water pressure in Adare is also very poor and should be addressed before any future application is granted.

13) It took years in Adare to get a new classroom for the boys & girls schools and they haven’t been completed yet. If the 17 acres are developed with 150-200 houses, there will be roughly 100-200 kids coming from this estate. The schools in Adare won’t be able to cope with these numbers.

14) Adare has never been ruined by the view of estates from the N21 for people driving through. This is why it has kept its character and it known as one of the Prettiest villages in Ireland. Putting a 17 acre estate into the only field in the village of adare would ruin the look of the village. This field should be given to the people of Adare for development of playing areas, community hall, crèche.

I would ask all the councillors to take my submission into consideration and please say no to this application.

Part VIII - Proposed Housing Development at Deerpark & Rathkeale Rd, Adare, Co. Limerick - Aighneachtaí

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