Marshes Shopping Centre - Recreational Area

bob2oo7

Someone at the weekend told me that as part of the original planning permission granted to build the Marshes Shopping Center, money was paid to the Dundalk Town Council for a recreational area close the the site

Some digging around on the online planning maps has provide this:

[font=arial, sans-serif]Application Number 05520001 online you can find that one of the conditions for the build was to pay the Dundalk Town Council 21,270 towards the provision of various community recreational and amenity facilites within the urban area (see point 3 in the picture below). Does this mean that there should be a park/playground built close-by? Or maybe I am just misinterpreting it [/font]

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

"Within the urban area" ...not in the immediate vicinity of the marshes. The council has done a lot of that type of work since so the money is long spent. What's your point?

bob2oo7

My point is... where is it? If they got the money, what did they spend it on. It would be nice to have another park in town (with a playground) and not just St Helena's

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

They have improved many areas in the urban area since the Marshes was built . Marian Park/Coxes playground for one.

tayto lover

The Marshes itself needs to start catering for it's customers.
Last Sunday i went there with 2 elderly people.
There was nowhere for them to sit down and take a rest. Only 5 seats outside Penneys and none on the other side near Dunnes Stores at all. There used to be a lot more but they seem to have removed them. It wouldn't kill them to provided a few chairs for pensioners and the frail.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

tayto lover wrote: »

The Marshes itself needs to start catering for it's customers.
Last Sunday i went there with 2 elderly people.
There was nowhere for them to sit down and take a rest. Only 5 seats outside Penneys and none on the other side near Dunnes Stores at all. There used to be a lot more but they seem to have removed them. It wouldn't kill them to provided a few chairs for pensioners and the frail.

I agree, the seating has been drastically reduced in the last few weeks. I know what was there, e.g. outside the River Cafe, was a bit battered but leave it there until it's replaced.

MugMugs

Seating in there isn't fit for purpose.

Leather couches and chairs. Why not just put in metal benches?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

MugMugs wrote: »

Seating in there isn't fit for purpose.

Leather couches and chairs. Why not just put in metal benches?

I don't agree. The leather and fabric chairs and couches were comfortable. We older people don't want metal benches: thank you but no thanks.

bob2oo7

My question has been answered

http://talkofthetown.ie/new-park-finally-set-to-proceed-12-years-on/