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Members should have been informed by Waterford County Council planners of their intention to grant planning for a dwelling that required a material contravention of their town plan. Photo: 123RF

Cllr John Heneghan insisted at the meeting of Lismore Town Council on Monday night, that members should have been informed by Waterford County Council planners of their intention to grant planning for a dwelling that required a material contravention of their town plan.

"We fought for that plan, tooth and nail, and the ink was hardly dry on it when they turn around and change it," he told members.

Planning was sought by an individual for a single storey house and garage at Ballysaggart Beg East, an area designated in the Lismore town plan and zoned for industrial development.

"It's the principle, we should have been told," Cllr Heneghan said. The land was zoned for a particular reason, he pointed out. He asked what if the new homeowner, when the house is built, objects to any future industrial development around him. "It then changes the whole thing." "It's happening fairly regularly now," Cllr Jimmy O'Gorman commented.

It was pointed out that the site given permission for the house is not in the middle of the area zoned for industry but at the end of it and that the land across the road from it is zoned for housing.

Cllr Heneghan stressed that he wasn't saying the development was wrong, just that they should have been informed of it. Town manager Paul Daly agreed with him and said he'd take it up with council planners.

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