New Aldi in Waterford objected to by..... You guessed it!!!

Bond-007 wrote:

It's a pity that transportation to Australia is not an option when dealing with McCann. :mad:


Does he have the funds to take a case to An Bord Pleanala?

According to the recent rulling by the EU.. Ireland has acted illegally in charging for submissions/objections to An Bord Pleanala. I guess the floodgates will open now

Bond-007 wrote:

It's a pity that transportation to Australia is not an option when dealing with McCann. :mad:


Does he have the funds to take a case to An Bord Pleanala?

Or at the very least back to Galway, where I'm sure there are PLENTY of things being built that he can object to :mad:

From today's Munster Express
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In his outgoing address as Mayor on Monday night, Hilary Quinlan identified the greatest threat to Waterford’s future prosperity: “a propensity for shooting ourselves in the foot when major investment projects are under consideration”.

On completing his third term in office, he said that while he did not want to comment on specific planning applications, he had real concerns about the message being sent to potential investors by individual objectors who had no mandate from the public but yet felt obliged to use every available means to stifle and delay badly needed developments with the potential to create employment and boost the city’s attractiveness as a place to live and work.

He said a recent visit to Kilkenny reminded him of just how many major schemes were underway there and he had a real fear that’s if Waterford got a reputation as being anti-development then outside investors would seriously question the value of trying to bring forward major projects here.

Waterford needed investment to grow and that was especially important if the city centre was to maintain its primacy and we were to avoid the American syndrome where everything drifted to larger sites on the edge of towns and cities and the old centres were left to decay.

Emphasising the main thrust of his argument, he said he had no difficulty with people exercising their right to examine planning applications and to engage in constructive dialogue with developers and the city planners, but huge and sometimes terminal delays to projects brought about by serial objectors and appellants to An Bord Pleanala were crippling the city’s progress.

“It is surely anti-democratic for a handful of unelected people to set themselves up as a parallel body who know best what the city needs. Left unchecked, they will destroy our city’s prospects for growth in a coordinated way as a regional gateway to the south east”, he warned.

Oh dear...

What a bloody gimp.

A law MUST be passed for he is bringing the whole planning process into Disrupute. Planning tribunals were setup in this country not so long ago for Politicans like Liam Lawlor and Ray Burke intervening in the democratic planning process... Oh Wait he is a wanna be politican so it must be the in thing to do (Intervene in the planning process) so he will get elected.

I honestly couldn't tell you. Some people obviously think he is doing some good. Silly silly people.

Mossy Monk wrote:

if they want to open 2 of each what difference does it make? dont go if your taste buds are too good for them

No difference to me but it might make a difference to other workers in other supermarkets and to different shopiing areas of the city,its not such a black and white statement.they can open 10 or 20 lidls if they want am sure people will come from miles to see them.