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From: snapper
Posted: 1 March 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
Thanks for the info ec I'll try get down!
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From: mar808
Posted: 1 March 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
i think the proposed football par should go ahead but i think it needs to incorperate other sports facillitys. i do not agree with dunnes locating there, as for jpk comments that it would be a good idea he needs to realize the impacts that the tesco site has already done to the area and if another site of such magnatude was built the wildlife of that area would be wiped out. Already there has been a decrease in the bio diversity in turvey and this will drop even further if dunnes and the gready get there way. i knew it would be a greedy PD that would support such a proposal.
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From: johnny
Posted: 1 March 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
Your scaremongering Mar808 and spouting gibberish without facts.
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From: mar808
Posted: 1 March 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
jonny if you want facts go and visit the site,and talk to the head of new bridge park. That is were i got my information.
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From: Potchumkin
Posted: 1 March 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
I am sorry that I have returned to this forum at such a late date. I did not see the the notice of the official national launch of National Tree Week until this evening. I would certainly have been there to question officials about the propriety of a large commercial development at such proximity to the Community Wildlife Park.

The Co Co consultation with the community was extensive with regard to the CWP. It was non-existant when it came to a commercial venture.

Garry (Dec 05,'07) has a point about the destruction of the rural ambience.

The location of this proposed academy is without merit. It is on Council land. It is level. It is accessible to only those with cars. This is a complete contradiction of the ethos proposed by the excellent Community Wildlife Park plan.

The short term commercial benefit of this proposed commercial venture will quite outweigh the detrimental effect to the overall wildlife amenity value of the estuary and peninsula.
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From: ec
Posted: 3 March 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
@Potchumkin yeah it does seem odd that there was no publicity for this event. It smacks of trying to railroad the project.
Fingal do some great environmental work - their biodiversity day in newbridge is fantastic. They need think ahead though and safeguard wildlife and natural amenities. Once we lose green-space we'll never get it back.
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From: jmg
Posted: 13 May 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
It is with regret I read that Football Acacamy will now not be in Donabate. I was at a meeting early on in the year with all the local sports clubs, called by parish council, hoping that other sports clubs would object because of competition with this soccer club. All the sports clubs were in favour of the development. Because they could see the benefit for the entire Fingal community. The Donabate Parish Council opposed the Development on the basis that they were representing the community, this is not true. I would guess if a vote was taken in community most people would be in favour. I am a member of local GAA club anyone ive spoken to about this was in favour. The suggestion by Parish Council of placing it in Ballamastone is ridiculous the only council land available there is being used by GAA and Soccer clubs, the other land has been rezoned in the Local Action Plan for building they are not going to use building land for a sports facility. The proposed site was nearly one mile to the estuary and would have had minimal impact on environment, look at TESCO accross the road from proposed site. This whole project has now been delayed indefinately.We are loosing the run of ourselves, tree huggers win again. Its a disgrace that so few can stop this innovative proposal.
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From: snapper
Posted: 13 May 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
Jmg, I disagree with you, this football pitch was never thought out, where they were putting it was crazy,it was in the middle of nowhere no transport links etc, we need to save every bit of wildlife that we can if that means tree hugging then show me the tree...

please don't think I'm against sport or the likes I'm against bad planning and it will take eyes in the back of our collective heads to keep up with FCC...just look at the rest of north county Dublin and bad planning...nobody said no to sport facilities.
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From: gizmo
Posted: 13 May 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
I agree with you 100% snapper.

The council did not properly think this out.
If the academy was sited in Turvey, the council would have been in clear breach of EU law.
(Habitats Directive 992/45/).

It was the council that choose Turvey as the site without doing their homework.
It was the council that built up false expectation in the community.

I was at those meetings too and the AGM of the Parish Council.
My understand was that the Parish Council greatly welcomed this initiative by the council but thought that it was in the wrong location.

JMG, you need to get the facts rights here.
Despite repeated pleads by councillors Kelliher and Daly in October the council choose to put this out on public display. This was a half- baked idea by some Council official that wants to rail road this through at any expense. Bad planning yet again.

There are huge lands available in Ballymastone owned by the FCC and the HSE and if the will was there it could be sited there and compliment the existing sporting clubs as well as to serve the children from the 4 local schools.


To say that tree huggers have won is insulting to the people that care about the environment.
As snapper says, We need to save every bit of wildlife ?.



THIS IS ABOUT THE INCOMPETENCE OF THE COUNCIL and BAD PLANNING


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From: Saint
Posted: 14 May 2008
Proposed football academy at Turvey
Gizmo, I couldn't agree more. Its tiring to hear references to others as "tree-huggers" simply because they objected to the council building on ecologically sensitive lands.

While I agree many would benefit from this Academy, I do no believe its acceptable to build it on a site in which the location is clearly no more then an afterthought. As Snapper quite rightly pointed out, the site was in the middle of nowhere... Turvey Avenue doesn't even have a footpath, let alone transport links.

And as for "its a disgrace that so few can stop this innovative proposal", I don't agree with your estimations on the number of objectors there, jmg, its seems a lot of people object to this chosen site... and they have every right to do so without your slurs of "tree-hugging".
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