Radio personality Mair\u00e9ad Ronan has won a long-running planning battle to revamp and extend her family home in Dunmore East.<\/p>\n
An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la upheld a decision by Waterford City and County Council<\/a> to grant permission for major works on the property, despite a number of appeals from local residents.<\/p>\n The plans will see the existing cottage significantly extended with a new two-storey addition at the popular seaside location.<\/p>\n The decision overturns an earlier refusal issued during the lengthy planning process, which dates back to 2021.<\/p>\n Planning authorities ruled the redesigned home would not negatively impact the surrounding area or the character of the Dunmore East Architectural Conservation Area, as first reported by the Irish Mirror.<\/a><\/p>\n Concerns had also been raised about privacy and overlooking, but planners found the development would not seriously affect neighbouring properties.<\/p>\n Documents submitted as part of the application stated the current house is too small for Mair\u00e9ad Ronan and her family and no longer suited to modern living.<\/p>\n The revamped design was also described as contemporary while remaining respectful to the area\u2019s existing streetscape.<\/p>\n For the latest Waterford News<\/a> and Sport<\/a>, tune into WLR News on the hour and download the WLR App for news on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio personality Mair\u00e9ad Ronan has won a long-running planning battle to revamp and extend her family home in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-471349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471349","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=471349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}