Navan Cinema

chewed · 14-11-2014 8:42am

That Retail Park has been a ghost town in recent months. TK Maxx has brought some life to it, but when that novelty dies down, there'll be no reason to go there other than buy toys in Smyths at Christmas. The cinema would have been a great boost to the economy there and surely would have attracted more retailers to set up shop, thus creating more employment.

Stroke Politics · 14-11-2014 10:04am

New retail park to be built behind Lidl on Trim Road in next 18 months.....

Stroke Politics · 14-11-2014 10:08am

chewed wrote: »

That Retail Park has been a ghost town in recent months. TK Maxx has brought some life to it, but when that novelty dies down, there'll be no reason to go there other than buy toys in Smyths at Christmas. The cinema would have been a great boost to the economy there and surely would have attracted more retailers to set up shop, thus creating more employment.

They're lifeless places anyway. Soulless big box stores with the same retailers, the same oul tat, and hundreds of cars. You could be in Northampton, Nenagh or any other town in the British Isles when you park up at these places. I see a burger van parked up there and doing business at the weekend. Big sign on it advertising "Burges"......

Access · 17-11-2014 12:25am

This is beyond disappointing at this stage...

(on a side note it is actually nice to see all contributors on this thread in agreement for once about a topic! - it makes a change!

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Blanch and ashbourne will continue to get my business as well as my christmas shopping this year.

Im sick of the slow pace, red tape attitude of Navan town and Meath Coco... The Councillors would want to take a trip to Westport, Killarney or even Kinsale to see how a town is planned and is run properly!

Bunch of muppets.

Vego · 17-11-2014 12:46am

Access wrote: »

This is beyond disappointing at this stage...

(on a side note it is actually nice to see all contributors on this thread in agreement for once about a topic! - it makes a change! )

Blanch and ashbourne will continue to get my business as well as my christmas shopping this year.

Im sick of the slow pace, red tape attitude of Navan town and Meath Coco... The Councillors would want to take a trip to Westport, Killarney or even Kinsale to see how a town is planned and is run properly!

Bunch of muppets.

As far as I know the town passed the planning for the cinema its was overturned by an board pleanala on two separate occasions not sure how that can be blamed on the council / councillors....as mentioned earlier it will be built on a certain site in navan when a certain individual wants it built (not sure how he still has influence or money but he does)

chrysagon · 17-11-2014 6:57am

That consortium not involved in NAMA land?

Navan is one of those towns where everything is deep in the town, causing even more gridlock!!

Access · 18-11-2014 11:02pm

I just noticed that this thread started back in august 2012 and we still have no new cinema! - I would reckon i go to the cinema at least once a month or so...

Taking that into account and pointing out i have not gone to navan cinema in about 4 or 5 years, that means i have spent my money elsewhere (be it in blanch or ashbourne) on at least 48 different occasions and associated extra spending in those towns as well - be it a bite to eat for the family or a few extra purchases.

Money i could have spent in my own town.

chrysagon · 19-11-2014 4:10pm

The whole thing is shrounded in mystery, county council said ok... the mystery team of non natives, Board Planela said no... these guys like the guys from NAMA, shrounded in mystery , just like North Korea!!

Vego · 19-11-2014 4:46pm

chrysagon wrote: »

The whole thing is shrounded in mystery, county council said ok... the mystery team of non natives, Board Planela said no... these guys like the guys from NAMA, shrounded in mystery , just like North Korea!!

yeah its weird they turned it down on an appeal from navan cinema and ashbourne cinema yet the decision was made on location and access .....yet the council can centralise their offices an equal distance out side of the town

chrysagon · 19-11-2014 5:01pm

Vego wrote: »

yeah its weird they turned it down on an appeal from navan cinema and ashbourne cinema yet the decision was made on location and access .....yet the council can centralise their offices an equal distance out side of the town

Exactly..... they bend to suit the situation presented to them!!

chewed · 05-03-2015 2:03pm

Good news on the cinema. It seems they got planning permission to build on Dan Shaw road!

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/roundup/articles/2015/03/05/4036167-planning-permission-granted-for-new-navan-cinema/

I'm still not sure about the location though and would have thought the retail park made better sense. This road already has big tailbacks where it meets the Trim Road, especially since they put in the lights.

chrysagon · 05-03-2015 5:17pm

i wonder whose the backers of this cinema...?

and i aint sure of the location..more gridlock?

Stroke Politics · 05-03-2015 8:33pm

Stroke Politics wrote: »

It's not what you propose, it's who you are.

The only cinema that will be allowed in this town will be the one that there is a planning permission notice for on Carraige Road, between the Pitch & Putt Club and Beechmount Garden Centre. Fact.

I told ye so. But ABP will overturn the grant of permission on this site and it will end up across the road behind Lidl....

bryaner · 05-03-2015 11:33pm

Stroke Politics wrote: »

I told ye so. But ABP will overturn the grant of permission on this site and it will end up across the road behind Lidl....

I'd say you're on the money, that would be the remains of the old dog track, and guess who owned it ( before nama took control)?

chrysagon · 06-03-2015 7:03am

Lack of transparency as usual... that retail park/white elephant on Athboy rd would have being perfect...but again, who knows whats happening behind the doors!!!

Access · 06-03-2015 11:36am

Im still not sure on the location? Is it in across from topaz distributer on trim road its ment to be going? Is this the same crowd that own the current cinema?

The only right place for this cinema is the retail park.

Stroke Politics · 06-03-2015 11:56am

Access wrote: »

Im still not sure on the location? Is it in across from topaz distributer on trim road its ment to be going? Is this the same crowd that own the current cinema?

The only right place for this cinema is the retail park.

No. It's proposed to go across the road from Beechmount Home park on the Dan Shaw Road coming down to Bird's Supervalu.

The proposers are not a cinema company. They are a property development company linked to the proposed development of a much larger adjacent site into a Town Centre. Can't understand this 1200+ seat complex being approved with the small number of parking spaces it proposed.....

bladespin · 06-03-2015 3:19pm

I'm sure they'll have an eye on the old Navan steel site.

Stroke Politics · 06-03-2015 4:43pm

bladespin wrote: »

I'm sure they'll have an eye on the old Navan steel site.

That's where the new Navan Town Centre South is to go, but they can't develop it yet. This cinema is a Trojan Horse to secure the permission granted on the S.C. Site, which is now running out of time...

chrysagon · 07-03-2015 8:08am

i can just imagine total gridlock.. and not a peep out of the local councillors...

Access · 07-03-2015 11:44am

chrysagon wrote: »

i can just imagine total gridlock.. and not a peep out of the local councillors...

That is very true... That proposed site has one road running along it that all traffic would have to access the cinema. And that road is choked with traffic most of the time.

The retail park site up at did and tk maxx has four roads leading from it and a motorway intersection too which would allow traffic to disapate very quickly.

Its very simple... Look at where the cinema is in Ashbourne and mullingar... Outside the town on a circular route with at least three route leading away from it. This is the way it should be done!

Is it near three years this thread is going on now and over those three years i have used Ashbourne cinema everytime i wanted to see a movie apart from a few times i went to blanch. Thats money gone from navan i would have spent here and on associated purchases too, be it food after or a bit of shopping etc.

chrysagon · 08-03-2015 9:02am

Really beggars belief what positives can come out of putting a cinema in an area already very busy with traffic..we have already seen the poor planning around Navan, and yet it continues.

bladespin · 09-03-2015 2:19pm

Yet post anything suggesting you're not overly happy about the council and you'll be dogged.

washiskin · 09-03-2015 8:04pm

Bit off topic but I heard over the weekend that Homestore+More have been objected to in the retail park. :mad:

chrysagon · 09-03-2015 8:11pm

wouldnt surprise me at all..

darrcow · 05-08-2015 11:36am

I see the third navan cinema project has been refused. i wonder which councillor is lining there own pockets with back handers to stop this. the town is a run down dump, poor parking, not much entertainment for families and kids. lets just waist loads of money on there new offices in the old quinn building

chewed · 05-08-2015 3:54pm

darrcow wrote: »

I see the third navan cinema project has been refused.

Where was this reported?

kc66 · 05-08-2015 4:12pm

chewed wrote: »

Where was this reported?

Something in the Chronicle about it. I haven't seen it just saw it mentioned on their FB.

darrcow · 05-08-2015 4:48pm

it was a headline on the meath chronicle facebook page

chrysagon · 05-08-2015 9:58pm

For a town of Navans size, it offers little

haro124 · 06-08-2015 10:18pm

Now if only Diamond would invest a fraction of what this new cinema would've in modernising their cinema!

bladespin · 06-08-2015 10:47pm

haro124 wrote:

Now if only Diamond would invest a fraction of what this new cinema would've in modernising their cinema!

Why would they bother, pretty much have a monopoly on anyone who doesn't have easy transport access.

NufcNavan · 07-08-2015 2:01pm

Cinemas don't make money anymore anyway. Won't happen.

fancy pigeon · 07-08-2015 2:36pm

chrysagon wrote: »

For a town of Navans size, it offers little

If I wanted to see a film in the cinema, I'd either go Ashbourne or Dublin. I was in the Diamond cinema earlier this year for the first time in years and it has far from improved.

Its way too small for the surrounding population

Stroke Politics · 07-08-2015 4:21pm

Stroke Politics wrote: »

I told ye so. But ABP will overturn the grant of permission on this site and it will end up across the road behind Lidl....

I told ye so (again!). Standby for the next cinema p.p. application at the old dog track in retail park behind Lidl. This decision suits the developers perfectly well for their plan to redevelop the Carraige Road/Dan Shaw Road/Trim Road triangle in 2018, as this site was originally intended for development as the New Town Centre. Once that gets the green light, and the capital flow to develop it, the new cinema will be then started on the other side of the Trim Road....

As a side issue, I took the family to The Arc Cinema in Drogheda on the bank holiday Monday, very impressive facilities in Screen 1, excellent screen, plush carpets, and extremely courteous staff. And cheaper than Navan cinema as well. Made me see what could be done with the right investment for a town centre site.....

chewed · 10-08-2015 1:28pm

Stroke Politics wrote: »

I told ye so (again!). Standby for the next cinema p.p. application at the old dog track in retail park behind Lidl. This decision suits the developers perfectly well for their plan to redevelop the Carraige Road/Dan Shaw Road/Trim Road triangle in 2018, as this site was originally intended for development as the New Town Centre. Once that gets the green light, and the capital flow to develop it, the new cinema will be then started on the other side of the Trim Road....

As a side issue, I took the family to The Arc Cinema in Drogheda on the bank holiday Monday, very impressive facilities in Screen 1, excellent screen, plush carpets, and extremely courteous staff. And cheaper than Navan cinema as well. Made me see what could be done with the right investment for a town centre site.....

The traffic lights at the garage (Trim rd/Dan Shaw rd) is a complete joke now! I was coming out of Lidl on Friday afternoon trying to turn left. If I had of waited for my turn, I could easily be there for 10 mins. Instead, I turned right, as did many other drivers, just to try and get out of the place. Adding a cinema here as well is just going to create more grid lock!

chrysagon · 15-08-2015 7:41am

The planners aim seemly to to bring Navan to a standstill.. cinemas, shopping malls in middle of town is the plan seemly, all that will do is encourage folk to travel up to Blanch or Drogheda

Poncke · 28-08-2015 12:54pm

We have made a decision to move to Navan, Johnstown, but reading all of this and other stuff on Navan, I wonder was it the right decision to leave Blanch other then getting a bigger house for less.

Seems some dodgy decisions being made re the cinema. I always went to Odeon or Cineworld, which are fantastic cinemas, seems I will be going to see movies in a kip now or drive back to Blanch to see one.

Is there anything good to say about Navan?

darrcow · 28-08-2015 1:49pm

@poncke if moving to johnstown and have kids of any age there is nothing for them to do not even a park. there are 3 parks ( swings and slides etc) in the town. the town has a lot of shops but nothing any different from most small town. The cinema is crap better driving to blanch or ashbourne. only a couple of decent restaurants everything else is very poor quality take aways. i nearly forgot there seems to be loads of hairdressers

TimeToShine · 30-08-2015 7:59am

Poncke wrote: »

We have made a decision to move to Navan, Johnstown, but reading all of this and other stuff on Navan, I wonder was it the right decision to leave Blanch other then getting a bigger house for less.

Seems some dodgy decisions being made re the cinema. I always went to Odeon or Cineworld, which are fantastic cinemas, seems I will be going to see movies in a kip now or drive back to Blanch to see one.

Is there anything good to say about Navan?

Well as someone who lived in both Clonee and now Navan I much prefer the latter. You'll only see the worst of it if you base your opinion on boards, it's a nice town.

bladespin · 30-08-2015 12:30pm

darrcow wrote: »

@poncke if moving to johnstown and have kids of any age there is nothing for them to do not even a park. there are 3 parks ( swings and slides etc) in the town. the town has a lot of shops but nothing any different from most small town. The cinema is crap better driving to blanch or ashbourne. only a couple of decent restaurants everything else is very poor quality take aways. i nearly forgot there seems to be loads of hairdressers

This is simply not accurate, there is a small park called the peoples park with playground facilities very close to Johnstown, easy walking distance.
Navan Rugby club has exceellent sports facilities and is only across the road. There are also several GAA clubs close by.
Karate, boxing, MMA, karting, soccer, tennis, swimming and even Irish dancing are local too. There's a few good gyms too.
There's also a pitch and put club in town and a golf course just past Johnstown on the Kentstown road.

The tow n itself has a good sized shopping centre with all the usual shops one would expect, there are alos several other retail parks.

The cinema is crap.

There are lots of good restraunts in town and around it: Zuccinis, Copper and Spices, Crave, Gaylord, The Russell, The Central, Thai Orchid, Oriental Palace as well as the hotels offerings with many more chippers and take-aways some poor, some very good.

There's also an excellent arts and culture centre which you seem to have missed completely, definitely worth a look, it's range is much further than some think.

Yes, there are lots of hairdressers and beauty shops lol, plenty of betting shops and a serious amount of pubs too.

Navan's by no means perfect but it's not a bad old town either.

washiskin · 30-08-2015 7:16pm

There's also the MDL soccer grounds out the Trim road which, by the way, is also home to a Radio Controlled Car Racing Club run by a nice bunch of lads.

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