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1. Having regard to the location of the proposed development which would generate increased traffic from an existing substandard vehicular access onto the N5 National Route, the proposal would be contrary to the Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028 with specific reference to Policy MTP-23 which states ‘To protect the capacity, efficiency and safety of the national road network in Mayo by complying with the ‘Spatial Planning and National Roads - Guidelines for Planning Authorities’ (2012)’ and Policy MTP-24 which states ‘To avoid the creation of additional direct access points from new development adjoining national roads or the generation of additional traffic from existing direct accesses to national roads to which speed limits greater than 60 km/h apply’. The proposed development is considered to be at variance with national official policy in relation to control of development on/affecting national roads, as outlined in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government Spatial Planning and National Roads Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2012). Accordingly, to grant the proposed development would be at variance with national policy in relation to development involving access to national roads would endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard and obstruction of road users, would have a detrimental impact on Planning and Development Section Áras and Chontae, Castlebar, Co. Mayo www.mayo.ie | 0949064000 the capacity, safety or operational efficiency of the national road network in the vicinity of the site, and therefore, would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area.
2. The proposed development would endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard or obstruction of road users or otherwise as the application fails to address the normal sighting and design considerations in relation to road safety at the access/egress point, in accordance with the requirements of the Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028.
3. The nature of the proposed development and resulting operations, would give rise to certain traffic hazards, with associated requirement for ongoing and stringent control measures to be maintained, would cause undue risk to road safety, would endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard, and would therefore be contrary to the proper planning and development of the area. END OF SCHEDLE.

The trial hole excavated on the site has revealed that because of the high level of the ground water and the very poor percolating property of the soil, the ground is unsuitable for the safe disposal of effluent from a septic tank or propriety effluent treatment unit and the proposed development therefore would be prejudicial to public health and contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area.

1. The development to be retained consists of three apartment units with floor areas of 38sq.m, 43.64sq.m and 43.42sq.m all of which fall short of the minimum floor area for one bedroomed apartment development which is 45sq.m as set out in Appendix 1 Minimum floor areas and standards of Planning Design Standards for Apartments: Guidelines for Planning Authorities 2025 and it is considered that the development would result in a substandard level of development, and would seriously injure the amenities of the future occupants of the existing development.
2. The development, if permitted, would result in a poor standard of residential amenity for the inhabitants particularly with regard to apartment size, lack of open space, communal open space, car parking, bicycle parking, storage and refuse storage. The development would constitute the over development of the site and the over concentration of apartment units which, if granted, would set an undesirable precedent for similar type sub-standard developments which would seriously injure the amenities and depreciate the value of the property in the vicinity. Planning and Development Section Áras and Chontae, Castlebar, Co. Mayo www.mayo.ie | 0949064000.