An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a residential development of 20 houses and apartments in Gort.
The Bord rejected an appeal by RHOC Gort seeking approval for the housing estate at Rindifin, Gort on the Ennis Road.
The plans called for the construction of 10 four-bed and 2 one-bed houses, along with a two storey block of eight apartments.
Other works involved in the project would have included creating an access road to the site, and alterations to the Ennis Road to accommodate it, along with the provision of a playground, private and public open space, and other landscaping works.
The county council refused planning permission for the housing development in October 2021 due to the zoning of the lands, and due to concerns about the access road.
RHOC Gort appealed that decision to An Bord Pleanála, arguing that numerous planning decisions supported developing Residential Phase 2 zoned lands in Gort.
The appeal also said that while the entrance to the access road is on industrial zoned lands, the road is also intended to service those lands along with the housing estate.
An Bord Pleanála upheld the county council’s decision to refuse planning permission, giving the encroachment onto Industrial zoned lands as the sole reason.
