what do you reckon about this
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Permission refused for M3 industrial estate
by Olivia Kelly
An Bord Pleanála has refused permission for an industrial estate
beside the new M3 motorway near Dunboyne, Co Meath, on the grounds
that it would damage plans for the Dublin-Meath rail link and
constitute an "unsustainable car dependent development".
Meath county councillors last June voted unanimously to rezone the
land for the 42-acre industrial /business estate, in contravention of
their own development plan. The application for 32 offices, light
industrial and warehousing units by Royal Gateway Holding Ltd, was
subsequently granted planning permission by the council but was
appealed by An Taisce to An Bord Pleanála.
In its ruling, the board said that the development contravened both
national and regional policies and was contrary to proper planning
and sustainable development of the area.
The development site was 1km north of a proposed railway station and
park-and-ride facility and would be "prejudicial" to the development
of a plan for the use of the land surrounding the major rail project.
The site would be accessed by a link road to the M3 which forms
an "integral part of the regional road and motorway system".
Additional traffic caused by the development would "interfere with
the free-flow of traffic and the carrying capacity" of the road and
thus "fail to protect public investment in the national road
network", the planning board said.
"It is considered that the proposed development, which would be
principally dependent on private car, would lead to the creation of
an unsustainable car dependent development."
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are they saying industrial estates shouldn't be put next to entrances to national road systems?
but they were putting it next to rail access?