The new 24-hour motorway service station planned for Junction 13 on the M8 near Mitchelstown, which was granted planning permission last week, will have four eat in/takeaway cafe/restaurants.

The eating area will take up 210 sq. metres of the total 966.6 sq. metre gross floor area. The main building will also house a convenience store, internal and external play area, public toilets, manager’s office, staff facilities and store rooms.

A three pump island forecourt for cars and vans is planned with a one pump island for heavy commercial vehicles. There’ll be parking for 71 cars, 12 HGV’s, three coaches and five motorcycle bays. A car wash is also included in the plan.

CONDITIONAL

Cork County Council placed 47 different conditions on planning, to protect water quality, in the interests of public health, in the interests of road safety and to protect adjacent amenities, watercourses and to preserve items of possible archaeological importance. One such archaeological site identified by the developer in an archaeological assessment submitted to Cork County Council must be excavated by a qualified archaeologist under licence from the National Monuments Service of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

There’s now a period of four weeks in which anyone who wants to lodge an appeal with An Bord Pleanala can do so.

The motorway service station planned by JR Oronco Ltd. for Junction 14 of the M8 at Moorepark, Fermoy, which also received planning permission recently, includes a shop/restaurant building, however permission to establish a drive-thru takeaway facility was refused. Planning permission was also refused in recent weeks to Amber Service Station in Fermoy for a drive-thru restaurant at its premises.