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Tue 12 Dec 2008Road will help to redevelop Kilkenny city, hearing told
A NEW central access road proposed for Kilkenny city which incorporates a cable-stayed bridge across the river Nore would unlock considerable city-centre redevelopment potential, including that of the former Smithwicks brewery site, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing into the scheme was told yesterday.
The scheme, which is being opposed by An Taisce and the Heritage Council among others, contains two distinct sections, an east-west link incorporating the new bridge over the Nore to the Castlecomer road and a north-south link connecting the city's western environs to the Freshford road.
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