Housing association appeals decision to refuse riverfront apartments
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A decision by Derry councillors to refuse planning permission for a new riverfront apartment complex will be appealed next week.
Local planning officers have described the location as ‘possibly the most difficult regeneration site’ in the city.
Clanmil Housing Association has proposed building a four-storey apartment complex comprised of 39 two-bedroom units.
It also includes rooftop amenity space, new access arrangements from Victoria Road, servicing and drop off provision, bin stores, cycle parking and landscaping.
However, the site location 22 metres below road level and sandwiched between the River Foyle and busy main road poses unique challenges.
Martin Cecil Connor
In the three and a half minute, expletive filled video of the incident taken by Connor’s unknown friend, the apartment, which had been fully furnished, is completely trashed with cupboards doors hanging off and the fridge lying on its back, close to empty Buckfast bottles while Connor, vodka bottle in hand, rants incoherently as he picks it up, shoves it out of the window and then produces the bat as he strides out the door.
Arrested and interviewed Connor, from Windermere Gardens also in Lisburn, “apologised for his actions” and lodging his pleas in mitigation, defence counsel Peter Canavan conceded it had “rightly been described as very dangerous behaviour.”
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