Plan to replace hotel rooms with development fails

A PROPOSAL by a Killarney hotel to demolish 108 bedrooms and, instead, build shops and restaurants has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

Last November, Killarney Town Council granted planning permission for the development at the Quality Hotel, on the Park Road, but appeals were lodged by a number of local people, some of them prominent in business.

The developer, Hepton Developments, claimed some of the appeals were vexatious and the appellants were motivated solely by business interests, with some being involved in retail close to the hotel.