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Challenge to go-ahead for dock project

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / September 15 1999: Challenge to go-ahead for dock project

Eight appeals have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála against Dublin Corporation's decision to grant permission for the proposed national conference centre and 4.1 million square feet of ancillary development at Spencer Dock. The appellants include Mr Dermot Desmond, the financier, as well as An Taisce, the Irish Georgian Society, the East Wall Residents' Association, Dock lands Communities Against HighRise and two city councillors, Mr Ciaran Cuffe (Greens) and Mr Gerard Breen (FG).

The Spencer Dock Development Company, a consortium consisting of Treasury Holdings, Mr Harry Crosbie, the docklands entrepreneur, and CIÉ, which owns the 51-acre site, has also appealed against the conditions laid down by the corporation's planners.

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