Plans to construct a seven storey hotel complex close to Dungarvan town centre have hit a bump in the road after Waterford Council ruled the planning application as ‘incomplete’.
A planning application lodged by local businessman Michael Ryan sought to demolish the former Glanbia laboratory and office quarters at the junction of Richard A. Walsh Street and Davitt’s Quay.
The building, known as Bridge House, would be replaced with a hotel facility that included 42 conventional hotel bedrooms and a similar number of aparthotel rooms.
The plans also included a penthouse suite, two function halls, café / bar, 48-space car park and 26 bicycle bays.
The application signified Mr Ryan’s second attempt to develop the site after Waterford Council and subsequently An Bord Pleanála refused permission for a nine-story, 65-room boutique hotel in recent years.
Both authorities considered it out of sync with its surrounds.
Last January the applicant received planning permission for a 40-bed hotel, restaurant and car park on two sites within 50 metres of Bridge House. That development has yet to start.
