Ambitious plans for port
Rosslare Europort.
ROSSLARE Europort has ambitious plans for its future development, which are outlined in the submission by its manager, John P Lynch.
Mr Lynch talks about the expansion of the Europort's currently exclusive roll-on roll-off (RoRo) business into load-on load-off (LoLo) traffic and the eventual development of a Railfreight terminal.
However, to facilitate all these developments, Mr Lynch said they will need the reclamation of up to 20 hectares of additional land and the deepening of part, or all, of the Europort from the current 7.2m to 9m and perhaps, eventually, 11m.
Mr Lynch said these developments would be facilitated, and accelerated, by of a port centric logistics zone (a grouping of activities dealing with freight transportation) on lands beside the Europort.
Mr Breen said he recognises the 'fundamental and strategic importance of Rosslare Europort to the economic development of the county'.
The county manager said he will recommend that 'appropriate policies, objectives and development management standards are included in the draft plan to facilitate the development of the port', subject to the appropriate technical and environmental assessments.
As part of his submission, Mr Lynch also requested that the '1902 Lighthouse' at the port, which is recognised on the National Inventory of Architectural Services, not be included on the Record of Protected Structures.
Mr Breen said he would give further consideration as to whether it would be appropriate to de-list the lighthouse in advance of the draft plan.
