Massive for the city. Phoenix Park 33-hectares leisure complex is approved. With ski slope, mountain biking tracks and leisure lake. ⛷️🚵⛵
– will be redeveloped to create a “leisure lake”, dry ski slope and mountain biking track.
The plans are the second of what is expected to be a five-phase scheme that it is intended will eventually also deliver a climbing wall, high ropes course and 4G football pitch, subject to the further necessary planning permission. The Pioneer Education Centre will act as a visitor centre for the Phoenix Park leisure site and provide a space for young people to learn Pic: MCK Design AssociatesCommittee members unanimously approved the phase 2 plans – as recommended by council planning officers – in spite of the fact they conflicted with some elements of local planning policy because the site is classed as being in an area of “open countryside”.
Planning case officer Jonathan Evans said that no such protection was included in the design, but stressed that ecologists and Natural England had been consulted about the plans and that the latter was “satisfied that there wouldn’t be an unacceptable impact on the SSSI”, which the committee heard was some two kilometres away.Committee member Phil Crowe said that the plans were simply a case of “reclaiming” a site and “making use of it”.
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