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Friday, April 01, 2005
Chemist and medics at odds over rival pharmacy
By Jennifer Long
THE owners of a Ballybricken pharmacy have failed to halt works at the former Bank of Ireland premises nextdoor by the medics attached to the Keogh Practise whom its believed want to develop a new pharmacy on the site.
J &M Power Pharmacy, of 32 Ballybricken, had appealed to An Bord Pleanála not to grant permission for external works and a new shopfront at the now unoccupied former bank premises at numbers 30 and 31 Ballybricken. But the planning authority had upheld a City Council decision to grant permission to ‘The Bullpost Partnership’, a team of medical professionals involved with the Keogh Practise, subject to minor alterations to the plans.
The medics had applied for elevation works and new signage on the site which was used up to December 2003 by the Waterford City Library Service.
Originally, both the owners of J&M Power Pharmacy Ltd. and the Waterford Drug Company, based as 24 Ballybricken, lodged objections.
But following the granting of permission to the project by the City Council, the former alone decided to follow up with an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.
The basis of their objection was that retail use of the premises — it’s expected that a planning application for a shop premises will be lodged at a later date — would endanger public safety as it would be a traffic hazard. They also argued that development would “seriously detract from the townscape and visual amenity” of the area and that the development, if used as a pharmacy, would be “unsustainable”.
They claimed the area was already well-serviced by pharmacies and that it was in the new suburbs of Waterford that such businesses were required.
Their concentration in Ballybricken, it was further claimed, would encourage “unnecessary vehicular trips” and “consume fossil fuels”.
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