Neighbours object to Waterfront plan
NEIGHBOURS SAY PLANS FOR RESTAURANT/B&B GO AGAINST COUNTY AND ROSSES POINT PLANS
PLANS to convert one of Rosses Points landmark venues into a high-end restaurant and boutique B&B are being objected to by a family next door.
The family living directly to the east of the Waterfront Bar are claiming the proposals to re-develop the building would affect their privacy, views and stretch car parking to the front.
Jan Canham and Aisling Gillen submitted to Sligo County Council that the plans of restaurateurs Ashleigh and Padraig O’Brien also run contrary to the Sligo County Development Plan 2011-2017 and the Rosses Point Mini-Development Plan 2017-2023.
The O’Briens bought the building earlier this year and have plans to merge the vacant gallery to the existing licensed bar/ restaurant and renovate the first floor into seven guest bedrooms.
They have also sought permission to demolish and rebuild the front porch and erect a new shopfront to replace the dated 1980’s existing shopfront.
The Canham/Gillen Family contend that demolishing and rebuilding the porch “does not preserve the existing traditional streetscape of Rosses Point village by nature of its scale and amalgamation of two separate properties.”
They said that the proposed higher porch of solid wall as opposed to glass, would restrict their evening light and “seriously impair” their view of Sligo Bay.
The neighbours said they were particu- larly concerned that the proposed new porch is to be used as an entrance to the new development and that the new proposed “patio area” to the front of the porch would be used as for customer dining, something they say would be “a serious invasion of privacy.”
The Canham/Gillen family are also claiming the “noise nuisance from the customers will be immediately adjacent” to their building and unacceptably close to their family home.
Sligo County Council planners have now sought further information from the O’Brien couple on their application.