The placing constructing will host a ten pin bowling alley, youngsters’s play space, sports activities simulator, pool tables, laser tag zone, grand prix, delicate play climbing body, Sumo wrestling, MUGA, climbing partitions, a restaurant/restaurant and a celebration zone together with particular person occasion rooms.

The growth is to be constructed on the previous website of C&D Providers and is the brainchild of well-known Wexford businessman Des Pettitt.

The website adjoins the Talbot Hotel and was bought in the summertime of 2022 by the Talbot Hotel Group for properly above the €1 million asking worth. They subsequently introduced that they might not be continuing with controversial plans for an condominium advanced there. which had seen some opposition from locals.

A contemporary planning software for the household leisure centre was lodged again in April by an organization referred to as Oyster Lane Ltd, whose administrators are Des and Bernadette Pettitt.

Wexford County Council has now confirmed that planning permission has been granted for the household leisure centre, nonetheless, a variety of situations have been imposed corresponding to use of the event being confined to eight a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Sunday and no out of doors smoking space being erected inside the boundaries with out prior consent of the planning authority.

Other points addressed within the situations have been public lighting, bins and that the proposed landscaping scheme be carried out inside 12 months of the constructing being occupied.

The growth’s approval got here regardless of submissions that recommended that it was “a prime town centre site which is far more suited to town centre development such as retail or housing” and that “the design of the building is totally inappropriate in the historic centre of Wexford”.