Works at LaTouche affecting neighbour
FAMILY ERECT SIGN TO WARN OTHERS THAT DRIVEWAY AREA IS NOT SAFE
A GREYSTONES woman has said that her garden has been damaged and is rendered unsafe as a result of works at the former La Touche Hotel.
Mary Ó Raghallaigh and her husband live on Trafalgar Road, adjoining the site. While she was made aware previously that a boundary wall would be taken down, she said that various boundary walls at Rosaria, where the Ó Raghallaigh family live, have been damaged by workmen from the site.
Boulders and heavy ivy have fallen into the garden, damaging bedding and cracking a patio, and previously a boulder fell onto the driveway, she said. Mary said that she has put a sign up on the entrance warning people that her driveway and garden are not safe.
Concrete blocks, bricks, slates and other debris have been knocked into their premises, she said.
A Greystones woman said that her garden has been damaged and is rendered unsafe as a result of works going on at the former La Touche Hotel. Mary O Raghallaigh and her husband live on Trafalgar Road, adjoining the site. She said that she was aware that a boundary wall would be taken down.
Various boundary walls between Rosaria, where the O Raghallaigh family live, have been damaged by workmen from the site, she said.
Boulders and heavy ivy have fallen into the garden, damaging bedding and cracking a patio. Previously, a boulder fell onto the driveway.
‘ Thankfully my car wasn’t parked in that spot,’ said Mary, adding that it often would be.
She said that her architect contacted a senior planner for the project, who replied saying ‘sorry about that, would you like someone to come and sweep up the driveway?’
Mary said that she has put a sign up on the entrance warning people that her driveway and garden are not safe.
Concrete blocks, bricks, slates and other debris have been knocked into their premises, while on Thursday, October 11, parts of a wall collapsed into the garden as workmen demolished an old restaurant on the site.
‘A high wall along the side of the driveway has been left straddling precariously, while other walls have been fractured and remain unstable and unsafe,’ said Mrs O Raghallaigh.
Mrs O Raghallaigh said that complaints to people at the site were met with ‘indifference’, and she was not satisfied with the response made to her architect by the planner.
‘No apologies have been forthcoming from the site manager either for the disturbances and inconveniences caused, and attempts to contact the owners have been lamentably ineffectual,’ she said.
‘I’m not able to have peaceable enjoyment of my home.’
She said that representatives of the developers had visited her previously, and during discussions she expressed concern about her own property being destroyed.
‘ The man said that they wouldn’t let that happen,’ she said.
Planning permission granted to Crimson Lane is to convert the old building into five terraced houses with 22 modern houses built into the grounds.