{"id":379572,"date":"2026-04-03T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:06:09","slug":"parents-urge-council-to-back-down-after-states-largest-private-creche-told-to-remove-unauthorised-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379572\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents urge council to back down after state\u2019s largest private creche told to remove unauthorised structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Building works were done without planning approval but families plead for their retention\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Castlebagot House on the Bladonnel Road where Junior Genius is located. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TLE BAGOT HOUSE 6SH.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Castlebagot House on the Bladonnel Road where Junior Genius is located. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Parents whose children attend Ireland\u2019s largest private creche have pleaded with the local council to let the business keep multiple structures that were built without planning permission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Junior Genius Childcare in Castle\u00adbagot House, west Dublin, was given until March 2, four weeks ago, to remove a series of \u00adunauthorised building works measuring nearly 600 square metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Building works were done without planning approval but families plead for their retention Castlebagot House on the Bladonnel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15008,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-379572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-amy-molloy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}