Hansfield Station

[Mark Gleeson]

Irish Rail has complicated matters as there is permission for a road etc already in place.

Irish Rail now want a car park (which Manor Park homes was refused in the first place) when means new planning permission and more cost and hassle

[Jack O'Neill]

Whilst I think that a car park will enhance the station's appeal and economics and would support its need and construction...

but could they not just build the access road now and go ahead with seeking the permissions / constructions etc for the car park in its own delayed time?

[sean]

That would be my question too. Why not deal with the road first and the car park next?

[Thomas J Stamp]

well, as mark says, manor park were refused one, probably because the LA wanted people in the development to walk to the station and/or encourage the useage of a feeder bus service instead of using cars. if the adjacent development has not gone ahead, or is empty, i guess those reasons go out the window and for the station to operate at all they need a car park now.

[dowlingm]

A bus loop for a future service should be a condition of altered planning, with no expansion of the car park permitted in the future until feeder buses have maxed out potential modal shift.

[Mark Gleeson]

As far as I'm aware a bus stop was always in the plans.

The planners refused car parking on the grounds that it was inappropriate given the proximity of houses to the station and a desire to avoid attracting business from outside the area, after all they have car park at M3 and Dunboyne

[Jack O'Neill]

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