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12/10/2012
Cross Border Bridge Gets Go Ahead
Planning permission has been granted for a new £22m (€27.6m) cross-border bridge, linking Warrenpoint, Co Down with Co Louth near Omeath and close to Carlingford Lough.
The total length is approximately 660 metres and the project is seeking most of the money from the EU's fund for development in border regions.
Pamela Arthurs, who helped lead efforts to build the bridge on behalf of district councils, said: “We have first initiated this in 1976 and this has been a major project but it is not just about the fact that we will have a bridge, it is what it symbolises in how far we have come as a country.”
Northern Ireland's planning minister Alex Attwood approved the application and said he hopes that a similarly positive decision will come from the authorities in the Republic where the matter is still being considered.
An application has been made by Louth County Council and a separate application is before An Bord Pleanála.
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The total length is approximately 660 metres and the project is seeking most of the money from the EU's fund for development in border regions.
Pamela Arthurs, who helped lead efforts to build the bridge on behalf of district councils, said: “We have first initiated this in 1976 and this has been a major project but it is not just about the fact that we will have a bridge, it is what it symbolises in how far we have come as a country.”
Northern Ireland's planning minister Alex Attwood approved the application and said he hopes that a similarly positive decision will come from the authorities in the Republic where the matter is still being considered.
An application has been made by Louth County Council and a separate application is before An Bord Pleanála.
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