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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Fibre optic broadband service gets the go ahead in Erris
BY MARIAN HARRISON
A state-of-the-art broadband service will soon be in Erris after An Bord Pleanála gave Mayo County Council the go ahead to lay fibre optic cables.
The planning appeals board ruled last week that landowners in Erris who had refused to give consent for the cables to be laid in existing ducts beside the Galway/Mayo gas pipeline had acted unreasonably.
Director of services with Mayo Co Council, Peter Hynes, told the Western People that the board’s decision means the new broadband line will be laid late this year or early in 2011.
The council is in discussions with the Department of Communications and the owner of the pipeline.
“It will open up the entire area and we’re working on the possibility of extending it into Belmullet town and connecting it to the wave energy site off Belmullet,” said Mr Hynes.
The case was the first of its kind to be brought before the planning appeals board with a “minority” of land owners objecting to it. The laying of the cables will be tendered in the coming months.
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