A new biking centre in south Co Dublin, close to Co Wicklow, is nearing the final stages of the planning process, with the timeframe for final submissions just one month from now.
The project will be a major new cycling centre and will give cycling-based activities - and tourism - a significant boost in south Co Dublin and into Co Wicklow.
The new facility, on Coillte land, will be comprised of a trail head building with café, bike hire facility, toilets, ancillary spaces, new wastewater treatment system, new car park area and bike wash area.
The site is at Ticknock Trails, Windy Ridge, Ticknock Forest, Dublin 18. The Ticknock mountain bike trail has more than 12km of singletrack, which includes six red trails and one black trail. The site where the new centre looks set to be built currently has temporary bike hire facilities and a small coffee and snack café.
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That facility will continue to operate on a temporary basis until the new development is completed, assuming permission is granted. The final date for third party observations or submissions on the plans is October 16th. Coillte, which owns the lands, applied for the planning permission at the start of the year.
The planning application describes the facility as a "single storey National Mountain Bike Trail Head Building consisting of, a café, bike hire facility, toilets, ancillary spaces and all associated site works".
It added permission was also being sought "for the construction of a new car park including adjustments to the existing on site roadway and parking" as well as for the construction of a new wastewater treatment system and new bore well was well as "new bike wash facilities and all associated site works".
The new facility will also include alterations to public roadside landscaping to replace the existing roadside car parking with new a boundary fence and soft landscaping.
The site where the new facility will be located forms part of the Wicklow Mountains and is owned by Coillte CGA, as part of its forestry operations and recreational facilities. The biking facility already located at the site, which is operated by biking.ie operates as a mountain biking centre, with multiple trails starting from Ballinastoe.
