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CLARE hurling legend and Water- ford senior hurling manager, Davy Fitzgerald has made a fresh bid to kick-start his plans for a €4 million boutique hotel near Newmarket-on- Woeauke
Earlier this year, the Sixmilebri- dge man lodged plans to convert the Bellsfort Inn public house on the link road between Newmarket-on-Fergus to Shannon into a 23-bedroom hotel.
The proposal encountered local op- position and An Taisce stated that because part of the hotel would over- look an adjacent graveyard, it would “impose on the privacy of those
praying at graves’.
However, in September, Clare county council stated that it has a number of serious concerns in rela- tion to the proposal and were not fa- vourably disposed towards planning permission for the project because it represented significant overdevelop- ment of the site.
The council told Mr Fitzgerald to submit revised plans of significantly reduced proportion in terms of size and scale.
Now, in a bid to improve his chanc- es, Mr Fitzgerald has lodged a sub- mission with the Council to rezone the site as part of the new South SEA ier ae
And the council looks set to accept the submission and rezone the lands to have the site included in a new BSUS Cea meek ew
Mr Fitzgerald’s submission states that the 1.12 acre site comprises of a public house and function room which are outside any zoned area or designated settlement cluster in the local area plan and suggests that the proposed extension to the Urlanmore rural settlement cluster is in accord- ance with the proper planning and sustainable development of the re- rea toyl
The South Clare Plan is expected to be adopted by the Council next month.