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Plans to extend shopping centre lodged with council
Published Date: 16 January 2010
By Nick Rabbitts
DEVELOPERS have lodged plans to extend the Woodview Shopping Centre, near the Limerick Institute of Technology.
For the second time in the space of under 12 months, Ger & Jacinta Rodahan have lodged plans with the local authority to extend the small shopping area, which at the moment is home to the Centra shop run by the Rodahans, a hair salon, and a late-night pharmacy.They have applied for a single storey extension to the centre for three retail units, with the extension measuring 155 square metres.
Last September, Limerick City Council gave the go-ahead to an extension of Woodview Shopping Centre, in a move which will effectively see it double in size.
According to those plans, the site will double from its current size of 500 square metres and incorporate five new retail units, and one new food market.
At the time, Mayor Kevin Kiely welcomed the development.
“It’s near the two schools (St Nessans and LIT) and there is a huge population there from the immediate area. I have always been looking for better amenities in my ward. I think we need extra shops in that area though.”
However, Mayor Kiely said residents should get together and discuss the plans if they feel concerned.
Dave i agree with you 100%, i work across the road from it and have to look at it every day. it’s a bloody eyesore.
@dave123 wrote:
http://www.limerick.ie/Publications/Thefile,8018,en.pdf
There is a lot of info on the developments and projects in discription for Limerick. Esepcially the Arthurs Quqy project. So it looks like this will move quicker than the Opera centre??
If anything it will still be positive. Since many of the buildings are brought out and the city wants a proper city centre square and demolition of Arthurs quay park and centre, it will defenatley put the city centre focus back in the right direction. If anything, this will enhance the prospects of the Opera centre going ahead.
Dave that document has been floating around since 2007, the Arthurs quay development is only a proposal of what could be there, the main reason for that document was outlining the changes to the quay’s and strands, the pedestrianisation of Thomas St, Bedford Row, and O’Connell St, along with improvements on Catherine St and William St. it also covers the orbital route, these were the only projects with actual plans, when this document was published.
@dave123 wrote:
http://www.healypartners.com/pj_gpo.html
Has this scheme started back on the move.
Doubt it, they’ve boarded up the entrances and taken down the hoarding giving the footpath and a lane of traffic back to Henry Street, having done that i can’t see them doing anything with it for the foreseeable future.
@rumpelstiltskin wrote:
What archive did you pull this from? Diarmuid Scully hasn’t been the Mayor of Limerick for years (thank God).
Go ahead for Limerick opera centre
Planning permission has been granted for the £250 million Limerick Opera Centre, the largest development ever planned for the city centre.
It is hoped that 25,000 square metre retail/restaurant complex by Belfast-based Regeneration Developments will counter the growth of suburban shopping centres and draw visitors back into the city.
The site in Patrick Street of the new Opera Centre & shopping complex
Heritage bodies such as the Irish Georgian Society have made submissions stressing the architectural sensitivity of the Rutland Street/Ellen Street/Patrick Street/Bank Place quarter but the project has the support of Limerick Co-ordination Office and Mayor Diarmuid Scully.“This is vitally important for Limerick City and a sign of the renewed confidence in Limerick that an investment of this magnitude is coming to this city and I very much welcome it,” said the Mayor.
Senior planner Dick Tobin said further information on services for the development, car-parking, traffic strategy and on what frontllges are to be retained or otherwise was submitted by the developers as requested by City Hall.
Potential objectors now have a three-week window in which to make submissions.
Mayor Scully said while he respected people’s right to object on heritage grounds, “there’s a danger that heritage sumetimes gets in the way of what’s right for the city.”There were buildings in the area, some of which date from the 1770’s, “that are not far off being condemned” and might have to be torn down in any case, the Mayor said, adding that the developers had been consulting with Limerick Civic Trust on heritage and conservation matters.
To this end, a £2.5 million museum at the Patrick Street birthplace of 19th century Limerick diva Catherine Hayes will form part of the appropriately named development.
The developers have predicted that the project could bring over 100 000 people into the city weekly and have knock-on benefits for the Hunt Museum and other city centre attractions. Up to 500 jobs could be created in the construction phase and 1,000 fulltime jobs after it is completed.
@D-A-V-E wrote:
is that development on henry st stopped completely? what exactly are they building there? and is there any truth in the roumers of the eircom building behind riverpoint getting re developed?
yeah work across the road from that development on Henry St, haven’t seen anybody working in there for months, haven’t heard anything about the eircom building.
the travel lodge signs went up today, didn’t get a chance to take a picture but will try to get one later or tomorrow if i can.
Some news on Colbert station
Action stations as Bus Eireann gets approval
Date: 09 February 2009
A MODERN two-storey bus station is to built at Parnell Street within two years which will bring the terminus “up to the 21st century”.
An Bord Pleanala granted planning permission for the €5.5million redevelopment of Colbert Station last week, after it was originally refused by Limerick City Council.However, at an oral hearing in City Hall last October city planning officers did not voice as much opposition to the designs as originally expressed.
An Bord Pleanala have now overturned their ruling, while outlining a number of conditions before the development can proceed.
Overall, the board found that the plan would benefit the city, in spite of concerns in relation to the impact of works on Colbert Station, a protected structure.
It stated the development “would represent an enhanced transport hub which would be highly desirable in terms of expanding public transport facilities in Limerick city and surrounding areas”.
The board also found that it would not adversely affect the proposals for an orbital route along Parnell Street – which was initially the case put forward by refusal by Limerick City Council.
The application by Bus Eireann to rejuvenate the station was partly in response to the Department of Transport’s sectoral plan 2006.
And is understood that Bus Eireann may be reliant on the Department of Transport for a portion of the cost of the development, which could determine when construction could begin.
The plans will see a new bus station built at the current car parking area to the side of the existing station building. New car parking facilities will be developed where the bus bays are currently.
A landscape garden is planned for the carpark at the front of the station. An internal walkway will also connect the rail and bus station, providing greater ease of access for passengers.
Built in 1849 and designed by Sancton Wood, also architect of Heuston Station, the station was renamed after Con Colbert, the Limerick man executed following the 1916 Rising.
But the station was not originally intended to be located on Parnell Street. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage notes that “aristocratic and middle class interests prevented it from being constructed in the more fashionable parts of the city and it was thus built at the edge of the Victorian part of the Limerick city”.
Bank of Ireland O’connell street is finally getting it’s facelift. I was speaking to the foreman putting up the scaffolding yesterday, he told me that the money has been allocated for it for years but they never did anything about it…..also it means that they’re not going to run out of cash half way through
@demolition man wrote:
As we’re talking hospitals, can someone tell me if construction of the adare private hospital has sarted yet.
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Last time i saw O’callaghan strand the new paving was progressing very well with more workers on site then i expected for a job of it’s size.Has it advanced much in the last month?These works can really transform this section of the the river and open it as a nice riverside walk from thomond bridge to the new bridge.
Yes i’m living on o’callaghans strand, and it’s really starting to come together, the railings are up and they’ve started installing the benches. I’ll try to get a pic or two up later.
@dave123 wrote:
I heard more updates on Henry street.
Five storey development on the corner of Henry/Glenthworth street. It got the go ahead too. My memory is blurr, but what’s actually their now? Has anyone seen the pictures of this proposed development. Look’s like more great news for this great city centre street 🙂
P.S there is more news on this but not much limerick-leader website, if you want to check it out.
If it’s the place i’m thinking of then there was an office furniture store there the last time i was up around that side of town, either that or it’s on the site of the youth centre on the corner opposite the entrance to the garda station.
