Cardinal Health employees outside the plant last August as details emerged that it planned to cease operations in Tullamore
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An application for a Midlands Hospice to be located at Arden Lane in Tullamore has been put on hold
An application by the HSE to build a Midland's Hospice at Arden Lane in Tullamore has been put on hold by Offaly County Council pending further information.
The proposed development is for a 20 bedroom in-patient hospice with daycare facilities, administrative areas, 80 car parking spaces, 7, accessible parking bays and 30 covered bicycle spaces. Road upgrades to a portion of Arden Lane to provide for a two-way carriageway and footpath, street lighting, and new utilities to extend to the site from a new junction with a distributor road, will also be developed.
The choice of Arden Lane has become controversial. In a submission, O'Neill Town Planning, on behalf of Offaly Hospice Foundation said the site is on inappropriately zoned lands with totally inadequate services and infrastructure, along with inadequate community connections or ancillary medical services, public transport and town centre facilities.They have indicated the Wellwood site on the Tullamore bypass as their preferred location.
Meanwhile in a letter to the Tullamore Tribune, retired Palliative Medicine consultant Dr Michael Cushen expressed his dismay at the submission in what he described as a ''vexatious'' attempt to block planning permission for a vital healthcare facility.
Dr Cushen said that he and his colleagues in the HSE, as well as other hospice groups in the Midlands were ''only interested in which would be the best site, which we agreed was Arden Lane.''
A decision was due today but it has now been put on hold with no new date set for a decision.
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