Green light for Gurteen Agricultural College plan

Gurteen Agricultural College has received conditional planning permission for a new two-story classroom building at its Ballingarry campus.

The new building is to comprise of six general classrooms, sanitary and ancillary facilities. External works are planned to include a new internal pedestrian campus route and related soft landscaping, while 38 existing carparking spaces are to be relocated from the existing location south of the historic house to a new location south of the existing administrative and dormitory block.

The works will take place in the curtilage of Gurteen House, a Protected Structure.