Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: The Liffey Lip on December 06, 2018, 08:50:18 am
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A YEAR AFTER Applegreen complained that a rival’s petrol station plans near the M50 would increase traffic more than tenfold and lead to an “overprovision” of filling stations, it built its own forecourt on the site.
Two years ago, Vecglen Limited applied for permission to build a 262 sq m filling station and a 379 sq m drive-through restaurant in Ballymount’s M50 business park.
The firm behind the proposal is ultimately owned by Michael Cotter, one of the largest housebuilders in Ireland.
After permission was granted by the council for the filling station in December 2016, McGill Planning lodged an objection to An Bord Pleanála on behalf of Applegreen.
It argued the application was contrary to planning policy for motorway service stations and would lead to an “overprovision of petrol stations in the area”.
Applegreen added that Vecglen’s plans would increase traffic in the area more than tenfold while also failing to maximise the site’s employment potential.
Vecglen’s plans were ultimately approved after Applegreen withdrew its appeal in April 2017, however the project was never built. At the beginning of 2018, Applegreen applied for permission to build its own forecourt at the same location.
Applegreen’s planning application to build in Ballymount, prepared by planning firm John Spain Associates, said the site was a “suitable location for a petrol station” and argued against the same complaints it made to An Bord Pleanála about Vecglen proposal.
The council approved Applegreen’s larger service station last February. According to planning filings, construction commenced at the site in July and the service station has since opened.
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Simple explanation Lip both companies are shareholders in each other .One applies for PP and the other raises an objection but fails to argue the objection correctly the council rule on the objection over ruling it .Then Double Jeopardy you cannot object on that grounds again as the council or Board Plaineala have already ruled So you have managed to remove the substantive grounds for not getting permission and permission will be granted.
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I just hate the Greens.
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Similar thing happened in the beautiful seaside resort town of Balbriggan. Applegreen successfully objected to Tesco's plans for a filling station as part of it's Millfield shopping centre development, last year Applegreen built a filling station on the site. Them lads are astute businessmen and well connected.
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Or shysters.