Coffee shop proposal for north Longford town hits planning setback
Plans to turn an empty retail unit into a coffee shop on Granard’s Main Street will have to be resubmitted after the current application was deemed invalid.
A planning application seeking permission to change the use of a retail unit on Granard’s Main Street to that of a coffee shop has been deemed invalid/incomplete by Longford County Council.
The application, which was submitted by Mr Pascal Masterson, concerns the property at 41 Main Street in Granard.
The planning application was deemed invalid this week due to a number of technical discrepancies and missing information across the submitted documents.
The council highlighted errors such as a mismatch in the stated location of the proposed development in planning application Part A (Q2) and the site notice and newspaper notice.
In addition, the wording used to describe the development and the ancillary works was not consistent across the site notice, application form, and newspaper notice, a requirement in order to ensure all documentation aligns.
Further problems were noted with the site notice itself, which, the council stated in their correspondence to the applicant, “must be signed and not typed”. The site layout plan was also found to be incomplete, as it “did not include any site levels.”
As a result of these inconsistencies and omissions, the application in its current form was deemed invalid.
It will now need to be corrected and resubmitted by Mr Masterson in order for it to progress.
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