Three years after first submitting plans for a hotel on a prominent disused site opposite Wexford Bridge, brothers Colm and Anthony Neville of CoAnt Developments have been given the green light to construct the landmark building.
Wexford County Council has granted planning permission with conditions for the hotel with penthouse apartments and an underground car park at Commercial Quay after recently asking the developers to scale back the project and submit a revised design.
After reviewing the altered plans, senior planners have approved the revised design of the hotel which will be part five, seven and eight storey, fronting onto Commercial Quay with retail units and restaurants at Charlotte Street, 10 residential units with balconies on the upper levels, 133 bedrooms on the second, third and fourth floors and 105 car parking spaces at basement and ground floor level.
The Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive has said the number of vaccines being distributed will almost double in the coming week.
Paul Reid said more than 80,000 doses will be administered across the country between tomorrow and next Sunday. We have a very key week ahead of us, where we will be completing over 80,000 vaccinations, he said.
Mr Reid said the figure is almost double what we have been doing on a weekly basis .
He said it will include 13,500 people who are aged 85 plus, who will be vaccinated in their GP practice or in vaccination centres . We will also be doing over 40,000 staff and residents in long-term care facilities, who will be getting their second dose, and thirdly, 25,000 vaccinations of frontline healthcare workers with the AstraZeneca vaccine.