Park and ride for aerodrome: Ryder Cup Ltd based in Surrey has submitted a planning application to South Dublin County Council for the temporary use of part of Weston Aerodrome, in Lucan, Co Dublin as a park and ride facility for the Ryder Cup in Straffan, Co Kildare this September.
The proposal is to use a grassed area for parking which would be accessed via a secondary entrance to Weston Park House. A separate application has been submitted to Kildare County Council looking to use grounds at Palmerstown House near Johnstown, Co Kildare as a park and ride area.
Both Weston Aerodrome and Palmerstown House are owned by Citywest-based businessman Jim Mansfield. Bus Éireann secured a €1.3 million contract to ferry spectators to and from the Ryder Cup, where there will be a blanket ban on private transport.
Houses for former school site
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has given the thumbs up to Mr and Mrs R Leeney to build 10 houses in the grounds of the former De La Salle junior school at Long Acre, Upper Kilmacud Road in Stillorgan, Co Dublin. This will involve demolishing a nursery building and a two-storey house on the grounds. The houses will be a mix of five-bed detached, four-bed semi-detached and five-bed terraced houses.
New plan for top Foxrock house
The Grasmere Partnership, is looking to build two houses in the grounds of the mid-19th century house, Grasmere, on Westminster Road in Foxrock, Co Dublin. The partnership, which is believed to be controlled by developer David Arnold, wants to build two-storey over basement five-bed houses of 642sq m (6,910sq ft) and 729sq m (7,847sq ft) respectively with double garages on the 1.4 acre site. In September 2004 An Bord Pleanála ruled against a proposal to demolish the house which featured in a 1997 court case involving the Irish Permanent Building Society and its former chief executive, Dr Edmund Farrell and build 10 houses. This overturned planning permission granted by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for the development to the former owners of the site who included former hotelier David Doyle and Bernard McAvoy, who bought the house on 1.4 acres from Dr Farrell in 1999.
