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Station Road,Portarlington

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  • 03-05-2011 9:32pm
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    port
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    Any news on planning permission for alzheimers treatment centre, beside Odlums on Station Road? PP was appealed to An Board Pleanala some months ago, Laois Co Co Planning page doesn't show any progress since Jan last.


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    budhabob
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    What site was planning for? Hopefully on the eye sore site.


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    port
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    Planning was for the unfinished site beside Odlums, on Station Road...opposite 'White Fields'.


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    budhabob
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    port wrote: »
    Planning was for the unfinished site beside Odlums, on Station Road...opposite 'White Fields'.

    Oh excellent, That site is such an eye sore, although it can be very handy when giving directions :D


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    sydthebeat
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    the development was granted planning permission, subject to conditions, by an bord pleanal on 10/03/2011

    http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/237917.htm


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    artful_codger
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    why does a small town suddenly get two new large healthcare facilities ? - The Primary Health Centre in Kilnacourt House is opening in a few months and now a Nursing Home down the road which also includes a mixed medical centre and creche - are medical centres the new Hotels when it comes to developers getting generous tax reliefs? It seems so. Is there demand for these facilities or is this a case of 'if you build it they will come' ? There's already a nursing home on the other side of the town. Seems baffling that such facilities which require ongoing public funding would be built at a time the government are trying to cut back on spending in the health sector. There's a sizable facility out the road which could be converted - it's called the Hazel Hotel.


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    port
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    Thanks for the update.


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    sydthebeat
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    artful_codger wrote: »
    why does a small town suddenly get two new large healthcare facilities ? - The Primary Health Centre in Kilnacourt House is opening in a few months and now a Nursing Home down the road which also includes a mixed medical centre and creche - are medical centres the new Hotels when it comes to developers getting generous tax reliefs? It seems so. Is there demand for these facilities or is this a case of 'if you build it they will come' ? There's already a nursing home on the other side of the town. Seems baffling that such facilities which require ongoing public funding would be built at a time the government are trying to cut back on spending in the health sector. There's a sizable facility out the road which could be converted - it's called the Hazel Hotel.

    there is definitely a demand for the primary health care centre. I fully endorse this development both for the social improvement and for the architectural improvement of kilnacourt house. This was done under tender from the HSE afaik.

    As for the development in question here, it smacks of a distressed developer looking to try to increase the value of hi sland before he flogs it off. Its a private venture, and seeing as there is already a large nursing home up in gracefield, its hard to see how there is some kind of economical need for this.


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    artful_codger
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    there is definitely a demand for the primary health care centre. I fully endorse this development both for the social improvement and for the architectural improvement of kilnacourt house. This was done under tender from the HSE afaik.

    As for the development in question here, it smacks of a distressed developer looking to try to increase the value of hi sland before he flogs it off. Its a private venture, and seeing as there is already a large nursing home up in gracefield, its hard to see how there is some kind of economical need for this.

    yeah i agree about Kilnacourt House, it's great to see it restored and it'll be an excellent facility, the original planning request turned down a few years ago was to turn it into a hotel :rolleyes:
    The other development in Corrig Glen seems less viable, i would hate to think it's just replacing a ghost estate with a ghost nursing home, but with such generous tax breaks for building these nursing homes the developer won't care one jot. One of the objections to the Corrig Glen nursing home was that, structurally, the finished apartments already on that site were nothing like the plans that were approved by Laois CoCo...so who knows what the nursing home will be like !


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    sydthebeat
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    artful_codger wrote: »
    ......... structurally, the finished apartments already on that site were nothing like the plans that were approved by Laois CoCo...so who knows what the nursing home will be like !

    permissions for these apartments were many, and included many augmentations while building was happening.
    AFAIK what is there does have the approval of laois co co.
    It wouldnt be possible to sell them otherwise.


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