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THE CASE OF the Kilkenny bridge, which has been the subject of a long-running and bitter dispute within the city, has been settled out of court.
Protesters have been mounting demonstrations against the multi-million euro project of Green’s Bridge in Kilkenny City since last year, causing work to be halted.
Opposition
The Save Kilkenny group were opposed to the construction of a controversial new bridge over the River Nore, meanwhile, a pro CAS (Central Access Scheme) group was also established who were in favour of the new bridge.
Christopher O’Keeffe took a case against Kilkenny County Council and last year, the High Court imposed a temporary injunction against the construction work.
Yesterday, the court made a number of orders in respect of the case, namely that the construction of the bridge will carry on.
High Court ruling
The court ruled the Central Access Scheme for the City of Kilkenny will carry on, but must be carried out in compliance with the decision of An Bord Pleanala made on the 12 December 2011 and under the requirements of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2014.
The Ossory pedestrian bridge, which is the subject of these proceedings, is to be carried out in compliance with the resolution of Kilkenny County Council made on the 22 April, 2014 pursuant to Part 8 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 and the requirements of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2014.
A statement from Mr O’Keefe states:
Mr O’Keeffe regrets, that despite his best efforts, it was not possible to establish this method of working, as the accepted one, much earlier in these proceedings, thus avoiding all costs.
He further regrets that there is currently no other avenue for citizens to pursue, in situations such as this, other than costly court actions, as there is no Ombudsman or Regulator in place that can deal with such concerns in a timely and cost neutral manner.
Planning
Kilkenny County Council said it also welcomed the High Court settlement which provides that the projects are compliant with planning consents and are properly authorised developments.
Margaret O’Brien from the Save Kilkenny group also welcomed the conclusion to the case.
Good day for everyone…the Council is happy, Chris O’ Keeffe is happy, Save Kilkenny is happy, the people of Kilkenny have been saved more unnecessary cost and above all the River Nore is happy.
I just have to hope that too much damage was not done last year…that the river and all that live in her are OK. This case was always about the river…and only the river.
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Sounds like a Ponzi scheme… Buy a share over the Internet in a place that could be a very artfully photographed Priory hall. Demand is high, the asset is way over valued. The initial investors cash out at the maximum and when the asset plummets in value and the shares become unsellable, the late investors loose everything. Also seems like it’s completely unregulated and open to abuse by those with inside information as to the value of the assets and property shares.
This sort of scam is nothing new, been several schemes shut down the UK selling people ‘shares’ in London green belt land and selling them on the fact that it could be reclassified for development and increase in value 100 fold.
Well, I guess we have learnt over the last few years that there is no shortage of gullible people out there when it comes to property, especially the Irish!
Crowdfunding? a bid like NAMA in ways.
Fianna Fail would love this…..
i doubt mr tully would appreciate seeing his house thats for sale for almost 450,000 being used at the top of this article
So more foreign direct investment ready to make our property crisis even worse. Good man Enda look the other way as usual.
Hmmmmm.
No bona fide purchaser for value without notice. What could possibly go wrong?
What has equity’s darling got to do with this; what am I missing?
Does this solve the homeless crisis in Ireland? Do we have the same population as the UK with ready cash? This business solution is well on the way by an Irish company by Irish people and they will only be investing in Social houses so we can solve our own problems thanks!
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A lot of women in UK. are using this type of “crowdfunding investment”, to have a property portfolio to eventually make themselves a good pension, time will tell if it works, to me there seems to be a lot of costs involved, for what you might get out of it. Will this start another property bubble? I think so I wouldn’t like to see this happening here again. I am very interested in what Louise has said, how would that work? Would there be rent controls, I heard a TD. talk about that, and said the leases would be 20 years, but these are families, only investors would tuff them out of their home! That won’t work., people need homes of their own,for life, to rent or buy,That is a real need in Irish people.
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