Drogheda Independent

Ardee By-Pass plans can’t be altered

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PLANS for the long awaited Ardee By-Pass can’t be altered, Louth County Council boss Joan Martin told councillor­s but she undertook to talk to the engineers to see if there was a way of looking at the issue of connectivi­ty.

Local councillor­s Jim Tenanty, Dolores Minogue and Pearse McGeough told the meeting that residents of the Mullenstow­n and Townsparks areas were worried that they would be cut off when the Bye-Pass is built.

Cllr Tennety said that a lot had changed since the plans were drawn up for the By-Pass in 2006 and he feared that if it goes ahead, the town will be cut off from its hinterland.

Chief Executive Joan Martin said that it wouldn’t be possible to revisit the scheme.

She explained that all the permission­s were in place since before the recession and they had gone through the standard protocol including CPO and they couldn’t now go back to the drawing board. The only chance it has of going ahead is because it’s ready to run - it’s a scheme that can be put in place very quickly,’ she explained. That was why the opportunit­y had arisen to get it built and take the traffic out of Ardee,

Cllr Minogue said that the residents wouldn’t want to stop the By-Pass and Cllr Tenanty wondered if would be possible to have a supplement­ary plan to address the residents’ concerns.

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