Plans for apartment building to the rear of popular Offaly pub blocked

Plans for the construction of an apartment building to the rear of a popular Offaly pub have been blocked by Offaly County Council due to a lack of capacity in the water facilities in the town.

Permission was sought to erect an apartment building to the rear of Logan's Bar on JKL Street in Edenderry. 

The planned building would have comprised of ten one-bedroom apartments and two two-bedroom apartments. 

To facilitate the proposed works, the derelict outbuildings, storage sheds and boundary wall currently in place would have been demolished. There were also plans to provided car-parking spaces. 

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The reason for the refusal was that the applicant failed to demonstrate that there is sufficient capacity or efficiency of water and waste water facilities in the area to cater for the proposed development.