Sir, - A very handsome, historic and inhabited house in Wentworth Place, Co Wicklow is to be demolished to make way for a supermarket. This entails the rezoning of what is a residential area to commercial.overturned by An Bord Pleanala.
The house is at present attached to another house. There are large implications traffic wise for the area and surely local shops will suffer? I feel this shortsighted decision is also part of the current climate of a careless attitude to our heritage and environment on the part of the powers that be.
As one of the residents who "fought against it, I feel kind of bulldozed myself. - Yours, etc.,
Wentworth Cottage,
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Church Hill,
Co Wicklow.