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The former post office in Clontarf Place in the city centre x
A DEVELOPER is planning to demolish a former post office in the city which has lain idle for more than 15 years.
Henry Street Developments has announced its intention to demolish unit numbers 11 and 12 Clontarf Place, which lies off O'Connell Avenue.
These buildings housed the neighbourhood's post office until around 2005.
The post office then moved to a unit in O’Connell Avenue before relocating to its current home in Henry Street in 2012 under a new provider.
It came after the former postmistress retired after 37 years’ service to the community.
The developer is also seeking to remove a number of derelict units immediately behind the former post office.
These are at one to four Wellesley Lane, while there will be grubbing up to clear weeds from the ground before temporary fencing will be erected around the site. There will be other site works done.
In preparation for these works, railings have already been placed around the old post office.
It's not yet clear what the developer then plans to do with the site, with the application expected to go before council planners only having details of the demolition.
It's likely once this is complete, a new application will follow.
Senator Maria Byrne, who is based only a few minutes’ walk from the site has welcomed the plans.
She said: “It's a welcome move that at long last something is happening with this derelict site and there are plans for it.
Hopefully, it will be back in use as accommodation as there was a family living there originally.” At the moment, Ms Byrne said the site is an “eyesore”.
“It has been such an eyesore on the street for so many years. And there are people living on that street. To have a derelict site alongside you does not help. So it's good there is somebody looking to develop,” she told the Limerick Leader/Limerick Live.
Attempts by to contact the developer have been unsuccessful.
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