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The site on the outskirts of Naas
Service station company Applegreen is keen to engage with Kildare County Council over stalled plans to provide a service station outside Naas.
The company had planned to open a station and training centre - and create 400 jobs - at the former Cemex plant adjacent to the “big ball” monument.
Cllr Bill Clear, who is also involved with Naas Tidy Towns has been pressing for the site to be redeveloped.
He’s said that the town cannot win the national Tidy Towns competition until this happens.
“I’m annoying them and they told me so. I don’t mind, that’s my job,” the councillor told a Naas Municipal District meeting.
“Homeless people are living there and it’s not safe,” he said, asking who this can be allowed.
Kildare County Council official Eoghan Ryan said a masterplan for the site as well as the adjacent former Donnelly Mirrors site is nearing completion.
“Applegreen is anxious to get in and talk to us,” he told the meeting.
He said among the issues to be clarified is which material on site can be recycled and he said that much of the material on site at Donnelly Mirrors was recycled.
The meeting heard that work on a traffic strategy that began in the second quarter of 2021 in consultation with the National Transport Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland is being finalised.
Planning permission for the development was originally granted in 2016 by Kildare County Council.
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