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Challenge to planning extension refusal for "substantial" development
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Barford Holdings Ltd, a company based in the Bahamas, has brought a judicial review in the High Court against Fingal County Council's refusal to extend planning permission for a proposed retirement village and hotel on the former Baldoyle Racecourse site. The company, which owns land at Main Street and Coast Road Baldoyle, had secured permission from An Bord Pleanala in 2015 to build a retirement facility with 150 en‑suite bedrooms, libraries, quiet rooms, roof terraces and patient‑care rooms, and a hotel with 134 rooms, 16 suites, a swimming pool, gym, spa, business centre, restaurant and conference centre. The planning permission was set to expire in July 2020, and Barford applied for an extension in May. Fingal County Council denied the extension in late July, citing a significant change in the area's development objectives and arguing that the proposed development no longer aligned with the land‑use zoning objective or the sustainable development goals of the local plan.
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What: Report matter: Challenge to planning extension refusal for "substantial" development. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
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- 2020-09-10 Publication
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