After a previous refusal and controversy, Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop have submitted a new planning application for a site on Old Teeling Street, Sligo. The proposal, for local developer Louis Doherty, is for a mixed residential and commercial development , next to the Courthouse Building. The architects have been working on proposals for the same site for three years and it has been an exhausting process. "This project would provide a successful case study into the difficulties of getting planning permission in Ireland" says Alan Dunlop "our first scheme was very well received by the Council, but we proposed the removal of a building next to the courthouse which had some historic interest. The whole thing got caught up in the current debate in Ireland about the protection of historic structures and dragged on and on, until we twice had to withdraw."
"Our client, in truth was very disappointed and so were we and we considered backing out but we have been recently encouraged to resubmit", adds Gordon Murray" and have taken this opportunity to look at the design a fresh"
The new proposal still is designed to maximise views and daylight from a restricted site and important connections and routes though the site are still encouraged but the buildings look as though they have hewn from the very limestone that surrounds Sligo.
"All Sligo's important building are made from Limestone" says Alan Dunlop, "we hope to add another . A contemporary piece of architecture with a firm connection to its location and context".
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