Appeal made against permission for new 500 pupil school

Planning permission granted by Carrick-on-Suir Town Council before its abolition in Phil Hogan’s reform of local government for a new campus for Comeragh College in the town has been appealed to An Bord Pleanala.

The new campus which would cater for about 500 students received planning permission in April and would have seen a two story building on a green field site on the outskirts of the town at Tinvane built.

A appeal against the permission for the school that would have pupils enrolled from counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Waterford was lodged on May 1.

The College is currently split between two separate sites in the town, at Greenside and the former Saint Josephs College.

An Bord Pleanala hopes to have a decision to the appeal made by the first week of September which falls inside the eighteen week target for decisions following an appeal to the granting of permission for any construction.

Management at the school had hoped that construction work would begin in early September and that the new school would be complete within eighteen months.

Tipperary Education and Training Board (formally Tipperary VEC) hopes the new school would be welcoming its first students through the doors in September 2016.