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New Development on the way in to Wicklow Town?

  • 29-07-2013 10:54pm
    #1
    Batesy
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    Anyone know what's being built at the entrance to the town on the left where the new coast road begins? Looks like a fairly big development.


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  • #2
    vickers209
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    New health centre I think

    From Co Co Planning website:

    Development Description: new primary care centre healthcare building, consisting of three storeys over semi-basement and associated site works, the building consists of ground floor 1,984sqm first floor 1,781sqm second floor 1.093sqm basement 162sqm totalling 4.984sqm gross floor area, site works consist of provision of 130 carparking spaces plus 30 carpark spaces shared with adjoining planning application reg ref 09/1331, shared entrance and access road from New Wicklow Town Port access road, ESB substation, ancillary site works and connection to services and site landscaping works

    http://www.wicklow.ie/ePlan41/FileRefDetails.aspx?file_number=102329&LASiteID=0


  • #3
    spank_inferno
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    I assume that Westmount clinic will move here?

    Shame about the location, there is plenty of appropriate space in the town itself.


  • #4
    Boaty
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    spank_inferno wrote: »
    I assume that Westmount clinic will move here?

    Shame about the location, there is plenty of appropriate space in the town itself.

    I believe its going to be an ambulance bay aswell so in that case its a great location.
    Not a good location if your a person who doesn't drive.


  • #5
    spank_inferno
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    Terrible location....

    considering there is a small empty hospital in the centre of the town next to an underused health clinic.

    right where the ambulances used to be located for years.

    an unnecessary build, considering what is available in the town already.


  • #6
    Boaty
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    Just because something has been in the same place for years doesn't make it a good location.
    It will speed up response times going.
    Going through the town is dangerous at high speed.


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  • #7
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Boaty wrote: »
    Just because something has been in the same place for years doesn't make it a good location.
    It will speed up response times going.
    Going through the town is dangerous at high speed.

    The area around the hospital is home to a large number of elderly residents.... The ambulance base worked well there.

    It is no improvement having ambulances having to go into Wicklow Town only to exit again to get to the Dublin hospitals..... So your access point makes no sense.

    Moving a doctors surgery / clinic 2 miles from the centre of town just healthcare harder to access for a lot of Wicklows.more elderly residents.


  • #8
    Boaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Boaty


    spank_inferno wrote: »
    The area around the hospital is home to a large number of elderly residents.... The ambulance base worked well there.

    It is no improvement having ambulances having to go into Wicklow Town only to exit again to get to the Dublin hospitals..... So your access point makes no sense.

    Moving a doctors surgery / clinic 2 miles from the centre of town just healthcare harder to access for a lot of Wicklows.more elderly residents.

    There is only a few ambulance bays at the new developement, so not all the ambulances will be based there if any.

    We haven't really been given information regarding the development other than a few gps are moving there.

    The development is 2.2km from the town's center roughly midway between Wicklow and Rathnew.

    I can't stay I know the stats, but I assume, half of the calls are outside Wicklow town, the new location would have great acess to Rathnew, Ashford and the N11.


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