Betting shop sought in former Moore’s shop

A PLANNING application has been submitted seeking to turn the former Moore’s Shop on the city’s Castlecomer Road into a betting shop.

The betting shop would occupy the ground floor of the premises on the corner of the Castlecomer Road and Ballybought Street.

The planning application also seeks to include a “new shopfront/elevational treatment accessed off Ballybought Street. The first floor to be converted from a single three-bed residential apartment to two single-bedroom apartments with a common stairwell access off Castlecomer New Road including ancillary and associated services.”