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08/02/2005, 7:10 PM
Rovers receive stadium boost (http://www.eleven-a-side.com/premier/irish_soccer_detail.asp?newsid=15917)
February 8, 2005
Shamrock Rovers have received a boost in their long-running stadium struggle after they were given permission to challenge the decision by South Dublin County Council to deny an extension of planning permission before Christmas.
Work on the proposed stadium has ground to a halt amid the uncertainty, but the club will hope to gain approval to recommence the project after their latest boost.
The local authority had denied an extension of planning permission in December due to the unexplained nature of the relationship between the club and its major investor, Conor Clarkson.
However, in a High Court hearing on Monday, Rovers were permitted to launch an appeal against that decision by the South Dublin council.
The Hoops will play their home games at Bohemians’ Dalymount Park ground in 2005, and, even allowing for a positive outcome to its appeal against the refusal of planning permission, it may be well into next year before work on the Tallaght stadium is complete.
At this stage I haven't a clue what exactly is going on down there. Did the SDCC not agree to build the stadium, so why exactly are the Rovers board now trying to do this? Will this not just drag the process out even more and only annoy the people who had offered to dig them out of the sorry mess they got in? The SDCC said...
Re: Shamrock Rovers Stadium Site.
The Council wishes to re-iterate its commitment made at its meeting on January 10th . It is this Council's ultimate objective, as it was on day one, that this proposed stadium be completed and that Shamrock Rovers will play there on completion.
Other non-soccer sporting organisations must develop their own facilities and in so far as possible the Council will support such sporting facilities as proposed by other organisations.
So why not let them get on with it?
I must have missed something, this seems a very odd move to make.
February 8, 2005
Shamrock Rovers have received a boost in their long-running stadium struggle after they were given permission to challenge the decision by South Dublin County Council to deny an extension of planning permission before Christmas.
Work on the proposed stadium has ground to a halt amid the uncertainty, but the club will hope to gain approval to recommence the project after their latest boost.
The local authority had denied an extension of planning permission in December due to the unexplained nature of the relationship between the club and its major investor, Conor Clarkson.
However, in a High Court hearing on Monday, Rovers were permitted to launch an appeal against that decision by the South Dublin council.
The Hoops will play their home games at Bohemians’ Dalymount Park ground in 2005, and, even allowing for a positive outcome to its appeal against the refusal of planning permission, it may be well into next year before work on the Tallaght stadium is complete.
At this stage I haven't a clue what exactly is going on down there. Did the SDCC not agree to build the stadium, so why exactly are the Rovers board now trying to do this? Will this not just drag the process out even more and only annoy the people who had offered to dig them out of the sorry mess they got in? The SDCC said...
Re: Shamrock Rovers Stadium Site.
The Council wishes to re-iterate its commitment made at its meeting on January 10th . It is this Council's ultimate objective, as it was on day one, that this proposed stadium be completed and that Shamrock Rovers will play there on completion.
Other non-soccer sporting organisations must develop their own facilities and in so far as possible the Council will support such sporting facilities as proposed by other organisations.
So why not let them get on with it?
I must have missed something, this seems a very odd move to make.