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 information has not been provided concerning the “as built” roadway design to demonstrate that surface water would be managed, collected and disposed of within the site and would not discharge on to adjoining properties.
One of the objectors to the retention application was local landowner Conor Geaney, who informed the council the roadway was built and the original entrance was widened in the two months preceding the JP McManus Pro-Am. Mr Geaney claimed the roadway was used as an entry and exit for over 1,000 cars per day between 6am and 9pm and for about 100 heavy goods vehicle movements on the five days around the prestigious event. In their appeal to An Bord Pleanála, the Manns stated the roadway abuts their land in parts, and surface water is draining from the roadway directly into their lands.
In response to the third-party appeal, Tizzard Holdings UC stated the Mann appeal failed to present any material land-use planning issue as to why the development is contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area..
