The road is located to the east of the 12th hole of the golf course, which is due to stage the Ryder Cup in 2027. An Bord Pleanála refused planning retention to the Adare Manor resort Adare Manor in Limerick is to host the Ryder Cup. Photo: Big 7 Travel The company that operates JP McManus’s luxury five-star Adare Manor resort in Co Limerick has lost out in a planning row with neighbouring landowners.
An Bord Pleanála has refused planning retention to the operator of the Adare Manor resort, Tizzard Holdings UC, for a widening and lengthening of existing internal farm roadway served by an existing farm entrance at Knockanes, Adare. The company widened the roadway without obtaining planning permission and Limerick County Council granted the retention application last year with the condition the road be used for agricultural purposes only. The road is located to the east of the 12th hole of the golf course, which is due to stage the Ryder Cup in 2027.
However, the permission was stalled after local landowners Breda and Michael Mann appealed the council decision to An Bord Pleanála. The appeals board refused planning retention after concluding Tizzard Holdings UC’s response “does not include a sufficient justification for the need of a roadway of such an excessive width and scale, solely for existing agricultural purposes serving only three fields with no farmyard or farm buildings”. The board also refused planning permission after concluding that sufficient i.