‘Progress being made’ on long-awaited plans for Michael Street in Waterford city
Mayor Seamus Ryan requested an update on the development at the April meeting of the Waterford Metropolitan District
“Progress is being made” on long-awaited plans for the redevelopment of Michael Street in Waterford city, a council meeting has heard.
The Mayor of Waterford, Labour councillor Seamus Ryan, requested an update on the development at the April meeting of the Waterford Metropolitan District.
Mayor Ryan described plans for the area as “a key development that should be coming up and should be dealt with shortly”.
In response, Acting Director of Services Seán Dobbs said that “various design issues are being worked through with the design team at the moment”.
He added that the council intends to go to public consultation on the development in due course.
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Meanwhile, Senior Executive Officer Donal Ó Murchadha told the meeting that he recently received an update on the development.
Mr Ó Murchadha said that an internal report is due to come before the council’s senior management team shortly.
“There is progress being made but look, we hope to have a workshop shortly with the members prior to public consultation starting on the Part 8,” he added.
Plans for the redevelopment of Michael Street first emerged some ten years ago and were originally envisaged to coincide with the North Quays development.
Plans included the construction of a 10,030 square metre shopping centre and a 635 square metre café/restaurant area.
However, a new plan emerged in the summer of 2020, featuring a 137 bedroom hotel, 2,634 square metres of retail space, 86 apartments, a creche and 373 car parking spaces.
However, these plans have since been revised on a number of occasions and the project is yet to progress to the planning stage.