Plans for new facilities in Cliffoney ‘fantastic news’
THE granting of planning permission last week for the dev elopment of new facilties for Cliffoney Celtic soccer club has been described as “fantastic news” by the club.
The development will consist of a new dressing room building, a new training pitch and a sewerage pumping station at the club’s grounds which are not far from Cliffoney on the road to to Mullaghmore.
The facilities at the grounds at present consist of one main pitch, a training pitch and several portacabins in use as dressing rooms. These buildings will be removed when the new building is ready.
The new dressing room building will be a single-storey L-shaped building with a roof height of 3.8m. On the outside there will be timber cladding and a green profile metal sheeting roof. The construction of the new training pitch, which will not be a full-size pitch, will involve ploughing, levelling and reseeding.
The council planner had no objections to the development. He said said that the proposed dressing rooms were “of limited scale and sensitively positioned the edge of the site and would be a visual improvement compared to the existing portacabins”.
A condition of the planning approval is that the club must engage an archaelogist to carrying out an assessment of the site and submit a report to the
National Monuments Service. Welcoming the granting of planning permission, a club statement on Twitter said: “This is fantastic news for everyone at Cliffoney Celtic and indeed for everyone in Cliffoney and the surrounding areas. “This development will provide facilities to north Sligo that will be of huge benefit to this generation and to the generations coming behind us. “This is a major step for Cliffoney Celtic as a club and one the will give us a platform to push on with our fundraising efforts over the coming months now we have been granted planning permission.”
The club thanked architect Martin McGloin for all his work with the planning and added: “This is the first of many important steps that we have to achieve over the coming weeks and months but as Michael Phelps said: ‘There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits to what you can achieve’.”