Aldi site Clonsilla road

Aldi has placed a new planning application:

 FW22A/0152 

1) Construction of a 2 storey commercial block fronting Weavers Row, Weavers Row, Clonsilla Rd, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 20 Jul 2022   Aldi Stores (Ireland) Limited, Anne O'Neill 

This will go largely unnoticed as they never removed their old site notice and we are in the middle of a holiday period / school break.

Really? Aldi and Lidl are littered everywhere and it seems one can't be built without the other. The Lidl in Clonsilla covers the area sufficiently and then you have Dunnes in Ongar, Dunnes, Lidl, Aldi and Marks in Blanch Centre, Tesco in Roselawn and Supervalue in Blanch village and then both Aldo and Lidl a bit further in Ongar. How much more supermarkets do you want within close proximity of one another.

What the area needs is more doctors and dentists but that's the professions rather than the buildings to house them in.

Planning doesn't care. Almost anything gets approval these days.

The area has stuff stuck here and there at random. Looks awful.

They should leave space for a bridge (or bridges) into Kellystown and to replace Clonsilla Bridge which they will close at some point. But no they are going to just run out of space with no consideration of future needs.

Whaaaayy another supermarket.

Whatever the outcome is, its important that they take into account the road closures/changes due to projects (level crossings closed, removal of roundabouts, extra unnecessary traffic lights etc) The same people who want this aldi are going to be the same people complaining that they cant get out of their estate on clonsilla rd.

Nothing should be given permission until the ongar barnhill road & kellystown rd, barberstown lane south upgrade is built. Then carry out a new traffic study and not during the summer holidays.

this application is using same traffic 'study' as the last application (which also copied the previous traffic plan). If an application is new then surely they need to update the traffic study.

Not bothered looking into every detail but what i can see is that there is no difference between this new application and the old one which was refused planning. The only difference is that theres a few housing units removed? Is there anything else? The same reasons for refusal should be used this time around.

Old site notice should be removed.

The land opposite hansfield train station has gone to planning permission. This includes retail units so why cant aldi build a store there? That also will prevent people (barnhill expected to have population of 4k) from coming onto clonsilla rd. https://barnhillgardenvillageshd.ie/ this should also be used as a reason for refusal. Barnhill will be home to a few shops and will have the road capacity to handle it.

Still trying to figure out whats the difference between lidl and aldi..... blanchardstown shopping centre is right there.

Or build the aldi without the housing units.

Same arsholes gave out about the l new lidl I'm sure

Bit dramatic

It looks like there is some space left for a bridge on their maps. The path to the space they have left looks very narrow and very close to the buildings- i would guess you could feel like you were intruding to access it…

They promised to restore some of the green tree line they removed as part of the planning- they put 3 christmas trees in small boxes and never watered them. They died and Its nothing but concrete now at that end of the road.

Lidl is a good shop- but checks need to be in place so they dont wreck the place with unsympathetic development.

Fair dues to Aldi's perseverance! They finally got planning permission after what, their 3rd or 4th attempt?

Good to see such a large unused site get developed and provide more choice for cost conscious consumers.

Aldi finally have gotten the go ahead for this site with their objections to the conditions above addressed.

https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/315707