EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO BLOCK MOUNTBELLEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

Date Published: 28-Sep-2008

Efforts are underway to block a new housing development in Mountbellew.

A local resident and environmental Group An Taisce are appealing the county council’s decision to allow Newmarket Projects Ltd build 48 houses at Castlegar.

The plans to build 20 detached and 28 semi-detached houses, car parking, landscaping and temporary waste water treatment unit at Castlegar attracted objections about flooding in the area.

However county planners gave the go-ahead to Newmarket Projects Ltd for the development subject to 20 conditions.

Opponents haven’t given up and one local resident and An Taisce have appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála.