Cinema finally granted permission

stick-dan

Hey all carla boardsie's:cool:

Did anyone else hear today that the new omniplex cinema finally got permission granted today?

Heard it on the radio coming home.:D

It got permission for an 8 screen 1500 seater complex complete with confectionary area.

Let me be the first to say wayhay FINALLY!

wheres me jumpa

pfft, unless it has a book store on one floor Im not impressed!

ShayK1

YYYYAAAAYYYY!!!! Wonder what their first films will be?

stick-dan

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

pfft, unless it has a book store on one floor Im not impressed!

+1 lol...


pity it wont be open to show the dak knight next thursday

we should have a boards film night on the first day it opens then head for beverages after :P

patrickc

yay about bloody time too:pac::D:D:D:D

Don1

Dark Night best viewed in Imax! The first full feature film to be done in Imax I believe.
Oh and woo for the cinema!

Jesus Wept

Now yiz won't have to come all the way to Dublin.

patrickc

The-Rigger wrote: »

Now yiz won't have to come all the way to Dublin.

aye with our cinema in carlow that has existed for many many years... your just jealous cos no new ones built in dublin since the year dot:pac:

mneylon

Are there any more details about this anywhere?

lotdpd

ye its going in on the second floor of phase two of the fairgreen(above) argos/next. So at least the unit is built and its only interior fit out to be done, might make it quicker to be open........

SV

Nice one!

fitzyshea

Who granted permission? Carlow Co Co or an bord pleanala? If the Co Co granted permission dont hold your breath as it will most likely be sent to bord pleanala with objections. This is what happened before. The cinema was to open shortly after fairgreen phase 2 opened but there was so many objections it went to bord pleanala who turned it down, issues such as the height of the building to not enough carparking. Wait and see if it appears in the papers next week if not dont get too excited.

lotdpd

did i hear they also got permission a couple of weeks back for a multi storey car park in the fairgreen, that would solve the problem of not enough car park spaces...

wheres me jumpa

lotdpd wrote: »

that would solve the problem of not enough car park spaces...

I didnt think it was that big of a problem, Ive never had problems getting parked there.

lotdpd

It would be on a sat or sunday which its full of shoppers along with the people coming to cinema..... that was one of the reasons it was rejected last time along with many others.

now they might cut the grass accross along the wall at new oak

stick-dan

i can't recollect which it was granted permission. I only heard it in passing on the radio on the way home from work. Hope its an bord pleanala...I heard them say revised plans were accepted so either way if it is the council that passed it maybe the new revised plans will satisfy an bord pleanala.... I can't for the life of me think what was revised as the height of the building was the main objection, and they are hardly going to lower it like. Maybe it was the multi storet car park? Anyone hea anything else?

fitzyshea

The building is higher than was allowed under the orginal application back in the day.

foggy_lad

bring back the coloseum! a flea-pit but it had character compared to todays clinical cinemas

stick-dan

anything is an improvement on the one as it stands...lol..

fitzyshea

Article in the Nationalist this morning about planning permission been granted for the cinema! Hopefully it wont be referred now to an bord pleanala.

wheres me jumpa

stick-dan wrote: »

anything is an improvement on the one as it stands...lol..

My sitting room is an improvement on the current cinema.

mneylon

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

My sitting room is an improvement on the current cinema.

So is mine. I have a nice surround sound system - Carlow cinema currently has worse audio than my alarm clock radio

wheres me jumpa

blacknight wrote: »

Carlow cinema currently has worse audio than my alarm clock radio

rofl

stick-dan

fitzyshea wrote: »

Article in the Nationalist this morning about planning permission been granted for the cinema! Hopefully it wont be referred now to an bord pleanala.

here's hoping but it probably will be but since it is revised who knows maybe just maybe it may get through, *crosses fingers!

blacknight wrote: »

So is mine. I have a nice surround sound system - Carlow cinema currently has worse audio than my alarm clock radio

lmfao

RealistSpy

I guess the new cinema is never coming then

steve66

foggy_lad wrote: »

bring back the coloseum! a flea-pit but it had character compared to todays clinical cinemas

Hear Hear. A cinema's not a cinema unless it has a balcony, and a screen that doesn't look as if it might fit into your
sitting room.
I still go regularly though, because I believe it's the best place to see a movie.
The price of stuff is atrocious though.

steve66

stick-dan wrote: »

here's hoping but it probably will be but since it is revised who knows maybe just maybe it may get through, *crosses fingers!



lmfao

Okay, that shows how much i know. I thought the sound was the only decent thing about it.

patrickc

steve66 wrote: »

Hear Hear. A cinema's not a cinema unless it has a balcony, and a screen that doesn't look as if it might fit into your
sitting room.
I still go regularly though, because I believe it's the best place to see a movie.
The price of stuff is atrocious though.

we all know they make there money from refreshments etc and not ticket prices

racso1975

http://www.omniplex.ie/employment.htm

patrickc

looks pretty imminent so... cheers

stick-dan

cool they coming..hehe new cinema *lil dance*

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

racso1975 wrote: »

http://www.omniplex.ie/employment.htm

ssssh, everyone look away

no one is hiring! there are no jobs! look elsewhere!!

bottletops

Well Folks!
Just wondering, is there any news on the new Cinema in Fairgreen yet? I thought the planning was sorted and they were recruiting... 6 months ago??

ShayK1

Apparently, there are issues regarding lack of parking.

stick-dan

Yep thats true they in the process of conceptual designing either a multistorey or underground carpark in fairgreen.

ShayK1

myself and my lovely lady were just discussing a multi-storey for Fairgreen the other day.

We think that if it went behind Auto Planet it wouldn't be too much of an eyesore, and it would be relatively easy to get into and out of (as fairgreen parking goes)

testicle

ShayK1 wrote: »

Apparently, there are issues regarding lack of parking.

They wouldn't have got planning permission if that was the case...

iamhunted

never understood the parking problem in fairgreen considering the size of woodies carpark

lucylu

I agree with Iamhunted
It is not as if the multiplex would ever be 100% full...
In fairness a new state-of-the-art cinema complex would have been one way to soften up locals and make it less difficult getting planning permission for that God awful looking building..
anyway I can't understand why there is not a one way system into Fairgreen..the parking is a joke...

I think the same fate happened in Newbridge with regards to the Cinema - false promises all that.

fitzyshea

The issue of parking and planning permission etc was discussed in this post previously. Omniplex had an ad on the website for a manager for the new cinema in Carlow. All I want to know is when will it open!!!!!! I think at this stage its on the long finger, which is crap as cinemas in general do very well in a recession!

stick-dan

puppet shows anyone?

aynon

punch and judy ftw!

ShayK1

testicle wrote: »

They wouldn't have got planning permission if that was the case...

well that's what was in the Nationalist so don't shoot the messenger

aynon

they can give planning permission, once they complete the stipulation in the contract for permission, within a specific time. most likely 3 years....

lostexpectation

yay 8 showings of igor!!!!

testicle

ShayK1 wrote: »

well that's what was in the Nationalist so don't shoot the messenger

*BANG*

ShayK1

eh, you shot me you A hole

aynon

....this is sparta!!!!!!

stick-dan

This is carlow actually:rolleyes:

sparta is thattaway:cool:

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aynon

oh sorry.....

this is

CEA! THAR!! LACH!!!!

wheres me jumpa

Remember the old cinema? One of the last movies I saw in there was The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie ( I think)