IKEA to seek permission for Dublin store
February 24, 2006 07
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The Swedish furniture retailer, IKEA, will lodge a planning application for its new store in Dublin later today. The company will ask Fingal County Council for permission for a 30,000 square metre shop in Ballymun.
Last year, the Government decided to remove a limit on the size of retail outlets in certain designated areas. IKEA's project manager in Ireland, Theresa Daly, said she believed the application met all the tests of national policy as well as local and national planning guidelines.
The company has rejected suggestions that the new shop will lead to traffic congestion on the M50 motorway. If planning permission is granted the new store will create up to 500 new jobs in Ballymun.
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