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How the 13 whiskey warehouses would be built on site
John Teeling is not giving up hope of developing a whiskey warehouse facility in Kilcurry, with an appeal relating to his previous bid currently lodged with An Bord Pleanala.
In a specially convened meeting of Louth County Council held in early June, councillors voted to deny a material contravention of the County Development Plan, denying Great Northern Distillery in their application to build an 111-acre whiskey maturation facility in Kilcurry.
18 councillors were present at the meeting and all voted against the proposal. Great Northern Distillery's Teeling, the man behind the proposed development, required 22 of 29 sitting Louth County councillors to back the plan for it to proceed.
The distillery boss had already said he was no longer looking to build the site in Louth after objections were raised ahead of the meeting, but having not withdrawn the planning application, the meeting took place as a matter of course.
Now, despite an understanding that the plans were dead in the water, it has emerged that the company have lodged an appeal to An Bord Pleanala, arguing against the local authority's decision.
'The applicant is disappointed with the decison of Louth County Council to refuse permission for this development,' the appeal stated.
'We have rigorously argued in the planning application process that the proposed development is of strategic national importance to the rapidly growing Irish whiskey sector and have demonstrated conclusively that it could be accommodated at the Kilcurry location.'
The appeal also accuses the councillors who voted against the development of failing to adequately consider the impacts as outlined by the Environmental Impact Assessment Report.
'We consider the decision by Louth County Council to be a lost opportunity for the industry and for many smaller whiskey producers in the region who stand to benefit from the availablity of whiskey maturation facilites of the scale required to facilitate expansion and export led growth in this sector,' it read.
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