{"id":598342,"date":"2026-08-19T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:38:11","slug":"petition-launched-to-stop-development-of-starbucks-drive-thru-at-galway-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598342\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition launched to stop development of Starbucks drive-thru at Galway Shopping Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A PETITION HAS been launched to vocalise opposition to the development of a Starbucks drive-thru at Galway Shopping Centre on Headford Road.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed development is in the very centre of Galway city, around 650m from Eyre Square and beside an existing Supermac\u2019s drive-thru.<\/p>\n<p>An application for the development was lodged with Galway City Council last week. A decision is due on 7 October.<\/p>\n<p>Applicant Atercin Liffey Unlimited stated within its planning application that the proposed new development will consist of the construction of a new single story drive-through hatch to the rear elevation of the existing coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>The development would reconfigure the existing car park. This would mean the inclusion of a new vehicle circulation route and a collection point.<\/p>\n<p>Pedestrian pathways in this car park would also be reconfigured to accommodate the development.<\/p>\n<p>The Galway Commuter Coalition, a community-led transport advocacy group, said it had established <a href=\"https:\/\/my.uplift.ie\/petitions\/object-to-another-starbucks-in-galway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the petition against the drive-thru<\/a> as it had major concerns regarding the potential impact of its development.<\/p>\n<p>It argued it would generate more traffic at an already congested junction and encourage further car-dependent development in a \u201chighly central urban location\u201d, decreasing footfall in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Its chair Cathal Lawlor said the area can make \u201cbetter use of sites like this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother drive-thru at the Galway Shopping Centre is the last thing the Headford Road and the surrounding area need, and the Galway public agree,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Atercin Liffey Unlimited, a company established by brothers Ciaran and Colum Butler in 2012, operates as many as 88 Starbucks locations in Ireland, according to Repak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A PETITION HAS been launched to vocalise opposition to the development of a Starbucks drive-thru at Galway Shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4500,253603,35234,253604,61,60,119160,2549,19566],"class_list":["post-598342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-galway","tag-galway-shopping-centre","tag-galway-city-council","tag-headford-road","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-opposition","tag-planning-permission","tag-starbucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598342","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=598342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}