Developer has two weeks to submit safety plan for ‘firetrap’

The developer of a block of apartments labelled a firetrap, in a series of expert reports, has been given two weeks to submit a plan of remedial action or face High Court proceedings.

The director of services for Meath County Council has written to developer Michael Ryan, whose Saltan Properties built Riverwalk Court in Ratoath, demanding action on foot of an independent engineer’s report to condemn the apartment block.

Following media disclosures, and in particular the Irish Examiner, the council commissioned an independent engineer’s report a fortnight ago, and it arrived at similar conclusions to a public interest report handed to the council last July.