Planning for shopping complex will create 500 jobs

UP to 500 jobs will be created in Dungarvan after a €440m shopping complex has been given planning permission.

The Clancy Construction Ltd development will be on the former 43-acre Glanbia site in the Shandon area of the town. However, the local authority has attached 44 conditions to allay the concerns of objectors who successfully appealed a previous planning permission decision of the town council to An Bord Pleanala. Among those objectors were RGDATA and An Taisce, and after a four-day oral hearing their objections were upheld.

In drafting the new application, the managing director of Clancy Construction, Billy Clancy, said they had made every possible effort to address the six key points under which Bord Pleanala ruled against them last time: “We believe we have succeeded in doing just that, and hopefully we can now proceed with a project that will generate hundreds of new jobs and will make Dungarvan one of the most attractive shopping meccas in the region.”