North Donegal Golf Club granted permission for clubhouse changes

Portsalon Golf Club has been granted conditional planning permission by Donegal County Council for the extension and alteration of its existing clubhouse and other facilities.

Enda McElhinney, the secretary of Portsalon Golf Club, was the listed applicant for the successful planning application. 

The popular golf club’s granted planning application includes construction of a covered entrance, a foyer display area with lift facilities, a meeting room, an office, a store, a tea room and male and female locker room facilities on the ground floor.

On the first floor, plans include a private members' area, new toilet facilities, and an extended balcony area.

Demolition of an existing store, as well as an upgrade to an existing entrance off access lane, a stone wall, an extension to an existing car park, new golf buggy parking and charging area, and a reconfiguration of practice pitches were included in the submitted application. 

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Portsalon Golf Club have been gradually upgrading facilities over the previous decades, having made applications to Donegal County Council in 1992, 2003, and 2008.

Donegal County Council granted planning permission for the application with six conditions, done so to prevent flooding, orderly development and public health, and in the interests of traffic safety and to allow for electric vehicle growth. 

Another condition was imposed that the applicant should pay a contribution of €961.48 in respect of public infrastructure and facilities benefiting development in the area of the Planning Authority that is already provided or is intended to be provided by the Authority.