Tipperary County Council says that it is the subject of legal proceedings instigated by the owner of the Old Cashel Kings Motel Site on the Dublin road at Ballypadeen outside Cashel. Cllr Tony Black received the response to a motion he had submitted requesting the council consider adding the site to the Derelict Sites Register and to ensure that proper security fencing be installed at the site to prevent anti-social and criminal behaviour at the site. Tipperary Fire services had to respond to a fire at the site last month.
The Council says the legal proceedings are ongoing and currently before the High Court. Tipperary Council says these matters must be settled before any other action can be considered. No work at the site on the old Dublin Road has been undertaken in approximately 15 years. The development was to include an international trade centre, an aparthotel and leisure facilities including a swimming pool. Large quantities of loose stone are in place on the roadside boundary to partially screen the site from public view. Work on the project ceased when the Tipperary County Council raised concerns about planning compliance in approximately 2008. The Council says primary responsibility for security rests with the property owner.
The full text of the Council response to Cllr Tony Black’s Motion is shown below –
“I can confirm this property has been the subject of legal proceedings instigated by the owner of the property against the Council. These proceedings are ongoing and are currently before the High Court. In the circumstances and pending a determination by the Court on these proceedings, the Council would not be in a position to take action in relation to the property as such could be prejudicial to the Council’s position in the High Court and to the eventual outcome of the proceedings. The property is privately owned and the primary responsibility for securing the property rests with the owner.”
Cllr Black was not in attendance when the motion came for discussion at the June meeting of the Tipperary Cahir Cashel MD and therefore it was not considered at the meeting last week.
