Connemara houses in planning limbo

Date Published: 18-Jun-2009

CONNEMARA families have been left in a planning limbo until An Bórd Pleanála makes a final decision on the proposed new coast road linking Ros an Mhíl harbour with Galway City.

As many as 20 families in Connemara will be unable to apply for planning permission to build new homes for at least three years until a final route for the new proposed Barna to Sríb Road is rubber stamped by the Planning Appeals Board.

A series of public consultation meetings on the proposed new road from Barna to Sríb via Ros an Mhíl, which will run parallel to the existing R336 Coast Road, are currently underway.

Galway County Council has outlined three main ‘corridors’ within which the new route should be built.

Contractors RPS Consulting Engineers has come up with four main proposed routes, and several routes that vary along these main four, for the new road that must come within these corridors.

Council officials have …