School must outline crash safety plans before playground extension can begin

Glenmaquin National School must show proposals to prevent vehicles from careering into a proposed area for a playground extension before works can begin.

Donegal County Council has granted conditional permission for the extension. The works will also include the installation of new fencing and site works.

The application, made by Glenmaquin NS principal Debbie Browne, has been given the green light by the local authority.

Among three conditions laid down by the Council is that Glenmaquin NS is to submit detailed proposals ‘for the mitigation of potential risk posed by the threat of a vehicle coming off the public road and falling down into the playground extension area’.

The junction at the school has seen several accidents in recent years. In 2017, Donegal County Council was told by then Councillor James Pat McDaid that it had to act in addressing the safety concerns.

The new development must be carried out strictly in accordance with lodged plans and details submitted and no surface water is to discharge onto the public road. The school must also take steps to ensure that no public road water discharges onto site.