I would like the council to further strengthen MA14.1 to protect residential amenity for the residents in Hermitage Park.

Please include a Specific Local Objections (SLO) that there will never be any access through Hermitage Gardens and Hermitage Park for this land. Access would cause a significant loss of residential amenity to all surrounding properties in the vicinity of the development affecting security and increasing the possibility of anti-social behaviour.

In previous planning application responses, An Bord Pleanala stated “the consequent intensification of vehicular traffic on the Hermitage Gardens cul-de-sac and the uncertainty in relation to the impact of increased traffic movements on the capacity and efficacy of the junction between this cul-de-sac and the regional road, the board was not satisfied that the proposed development would not seriously injure the residential amenities of adjoining residents and endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard or obstruction of road users.”