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Motor park earmarked for Dundalk
A MAJOR motor park to cater for the large number of commercial vehicles travelling along the M1 motorway from Dublin to Belfast has been earmarked for an area north of Dundalk.
Evolve Investments Ltd, trading under the name Euro Services, have applied for planning permission to Louth County Council to build a truck stop and motel at Carrickarnon, Dundalk.
The motor park has previously been refused planning permission by Louth County Council in April after Evolve Investments Ltd initially submitted an application in July last year.
The proposed development, which has been updated from last year, will consist of a truck stop overnight rest facility in the form of motel style accommodation laid out in a two storey building measuring 1,187 square metres.
This will include 30 bedrooms, a reception and dining area, a meeting room and associated customer and staff services.
The vehicular services facility will also include a secure compound for day and night time parking of heavy good and commercial vehicles while there will also be a single storey vehicle maintenance building incorporating a tyre repair centre.
It is also proposed that the development will include forecourts including four fuel pumps for heavy good vehicles and 12 fuel pumps for light duty vehicles with two separate overhead canopies.
There will also be a retail unit incorporating a shop and delicatessan area as well as a drive through restaurant, service yard, storage areas and public toilet facilites.
Among the other facilites earmarked for the site are a car wash facility, driver resting areas, public picnic areas and secure children's play areas.
Should the development get the go ahead then it would be a major competitor to the SuperStop service area currently under construction on the M1 at the Castlebellingham turn-off.
That development would be majorly hit were the Euro Services motor park to get the go ahead, although it will have the benefit of opening first with a scheduled opening date of this September.
A decision on the planning application is due on August 29.
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