15-storey hotel for Sligo gets council’s approval
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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0428/2102658864HM2SKYSCRAPER.html
15-storey hotel for Sligo gets council’s approval
Developers have been given the go-ahead for a 15-storey hotel at the main entrance to Sligo town, despite objections from residents, business people and environmentalists.
Sligo County Council gave permission to Galway-based developers Glenman Corporation to build the 144-bedroom hotel with leisure and conference facilities and 332 parking spaces at Carraroe, two miles from the town centre on the Dublin road.
The council laid down a number of conditions, including that the builders pay €500,000 for sewerage, water supply services and footpaths.
Objectors included local residents, businesses, An Taisce and the National Roads Authority.
An appeal to An Bord Pleanála is being considered.
Mr Pádraig Gorman, chairman of the Carraroe Development Committee, said: “We would welcome every type of development: hotel, office block, retail park. Nothing is excluded.
“But we ask that they be built outwards rather than up. Cut down the heights,” Mr Gorman said.
Other applications with the council for the area include plans for a 10-storey office block and a warehouse/office complex.
I like the URL – “skyscraper” indeed. Anyone know who the architects are?
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1171491&issue_id=10790
‘Skyscraper’ hotel to overlook Westlife singer’s lavish home
SLIGO is to have its first skyscraper hotel soaring 15 storeys high.
Future guests at the hotel could enjoy a bird’s eye view of the home of Westlife star, Shane Filan.
The 144-bedroomed, 15-storey Queen Maeve Hotel with an underground car park is to be located just north of the Carraroe roundabout, two miles south of Sligo town.
It has been granted planning permission by Sligo County Council, subject to stringent planning conditions.
Included in the conditions is the payment of €0.5m for the provision of a sewerage and water supply services and footpaths.
Situated just off the same roundabout is the palatial home of Westlife’s Shane Filan and his wife Gillian, complete with stables and garages for Shane’s extensive car collection.
The new hotel will also tower over a nearby state-of-the-art lighting emporium, Clifford Electrical, the owners of which have been some of the main objectors to the development.
Other objectors included the Carraroe Development Committee, An Taisce and the National Roads’ Authority.
Meanwhile, a new €100m tourism project has been proposed for Co Longford.
The proposal for the development on 650 acres of land just outside Longford town includes plans for a new 200-bed hotel, a 27 acres golf course and more than 100 houses.
It received unanimous provisional approval from councillors when it was unveiled at the county council’s monthly meeting.
The development is to be built on the old Carrigglass estate, about three miles from Longford town.
If built, it will be the single biggest development of its kind in the region.
The plan includes the retention of the existing Carrigglass Manor, a listed building dating from 1776, which is to be turned into a small period hotel.
It also includes the retention of six gate houses, the redevelopment of stables, the construction of a 27-hole international standard golf course adjoining the 200-bed hotel, a club house and other related facilities.
More than 100 housing units are to be built in a village within the estate.
Anita Guidera and Tom Felle
Oh, and the architect is Hugh Kelly of Murray O’Laoire:
http://www.murrayolaoire.com/people/directors/hughkellyi.html“But we ask that they be built outwards rather than up. Cut down the heights”
Build outwards? Does this guy seriously think thats a good idea? What is it with Irish people that they think urban sprawl is preferable to taller buildings?
But this building is not in the town but in the suburbs, am I correct? Suppossed to act as a gateway building….
at the first major intersection as you enter Sligo from the east. Not urban…….but not suburban either
is it ‘edge city’ or ‘ex-urban’ sort of stuff Alan?
Its green fields on a roundabout with a few bungalows around, sligo’s over a large hill, doubt you could see sligo from the top floor or the top floor from sligo. Saw a picture of it a while back, like a skinny version of the one in limerick, horrid business park material.
well if you’re talking about the site Phil, it’s typical of the non descript and characterless areas you often find at the entrance way to many regional towns. Big feckin roundabout and new road leading into Sligo.
A 15 storey hotel though, will certainly be a surprise.
“A 15 storey hotel though, will certainly be a surprise.”
It certainly will.
Thanks for that
Phil
Would have been nicer somewhere in town though, even if anything develops around it its still pretty much in the middle of nowhere.
Hav’nt seen the design myself Mob but just where in town would you put it? Thought it was horrid business park material?
ach……don’t say that to me Andrew. How feckin depressing
I had hoped it would be excellent. Give me something to cling to: the belief that eventually quality prevails
Probably somewhere similar as in limerick, towards the end of the quays and hope for the best to develop around it and become an extension of the town. Have you seen the plans for the site of the silver swan hotel and continuing down along the river. 4/5 storey mediocrity, stone clad, pitched rooves, round turrets. I don’t know how people think this is appropriate. Clean modern designs bear alot more relevance to the look of an irish town in my opinion. Sorry gone a bit off the thread there.
The Swan Hotel site, eh? Now there is a setting that is one of the best in all Ireland for a town hotel.
It is indeed desperate that the design does not live up to it
I’ll take that back, just saw the photo in the independent, not bad but definitely a million times better than the image i saw previously, think it was a first cousin of that golden can proposal for Salthill.
What the heck is it then, lads………… a big ugly grey slab or not bad.
Got an image from the Independent, that can be posted? Anyone?
Thats a great idea build outwards rather than upwards! Why dont all other countries follow our great example! Infuriating, what narrow minded tossers. Follow Dublins example why dont they, theyll be the tossers dealing with all the problems in a decade or two. Is there no certain height a building has to be to be called a skyscraper? I thought to be labeled a skyscraper a building had to be 120m plus? Could you imagine if that was the case and the objectors had to call them tall buildings instead what gobshites theyd sound like and how backwards theyd seem!
why do the papers always get quotes from these idiots. The local free rags in Dunb Laoghaire are full of quootes ffrom wanna be councillors at the moment saying how the new building for Carlisle pier is “ianappropriate” and the rest. Why don’t they balance the article(s) by quoting someone (like an architect) that thinks its progressive etc. Always appealing to the Nimbyist mentallity
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