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Developers have proposed that no development should take place over any children s burial ground with human remains in situ at the former Mother and Baby Home at Bessborough, Co Cork, where it is planned that 179 apartments be built.
The barrister for developer MWB Two Ltd made the proposal, one of a number conditions suggested in a submission to the oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála, which reconvened today.
David Holland SC for the developer circulated two documents at the hearing. These included a memo with their proposals for planning conditions and a document on an aerial photograph.
Mr Holland outlined these changes. He said they wanted to provide some form of memorialisation but said that they did not want to impose their view.
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The original environmental documents were approved in 2007, but the firm has challenged several aspects of the analysis.
Specifically, the letter sent by an attorney from Oakland-based environmental law firm of Lozeau Drury LLP alleges a number of flaws in the environmental analysis, including that it failed to analyze the project’s reasonably foreseeable impacts from the proposed light industrial zoning and potential impacts on biological resources.
Attorney Paige Fennie called the supplemental environmental impact report “wholly inadequate” and urged the council to delay action to allow staff time to review the concerns.
Dana Eady, a city planner, said the delay would allow staff time to review the issues mentioned in the lengthy letter.