8 June 2016
Historic Moore Street under threat if planning permission is extended
PROTESTERS demonstrated outside the gates of Leinster House on Wednesday demanding Heritage Minister Heather Humphreys act now, in line with a court ruling, and preserve the large portion of Moore Street which was protected by a High Court ruling earlier this year.
The protest comes amidst news that previously granted planning permission to build a shopping centre on the site, which would result in demolition of much of the street, may be extended.
Moore Street served as the last headquarters for many of the leaders of the 1916 Rising after they evacuated the GPO under artillery barrage.
Patrick Cooney of the Save Moore Street Campaign called on the Minister “to engage with interested parties and concerned 1916 relatives in a meaningful way in planning a new future for the Moore Street area as a 1916 historic and cultural quarter since the Chartered Land shopping centre development is now totally redundant.”
Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh described the idea that the shopping centre development may still get the go ahead as “ridiculous” and “farcical”:
“It would make a mockery of a judicial decision if the recent High Court's judgement is ignored and not heeded in the adjudicating on the planning permission extension application”, he said.
“We are appealing with planners not to give the go ahead to any plans which would take away from the historic Moore Street battlefield site. Our National Monument cannot be supplanted by a shopping centre.”
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