Mayor says that arts centre building in Tipperary is 'an architectural gem'

The South Tipperary Arts Centre in Nelson Street, Clonmel, should be included on the listed building schedule considering the architectural heritage of the building.

This was stated by the Mayor, Pat English, at a meeting of Clonmel Borough District.

Cllr English said that listed building status was warranted in this case “big time”.

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The building, which is owned by Tipperary County Council, was constructed in 1948 and is “an architectural gem,” the Mayor said.It had previously served as a bus station.

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District Administrator Carol Crieghton said that the county council’s planning section received a number of requests annually for structures to be added or removed from the record of protected structures.

Given the volume and frequency of these requests, it wasn’t possible to respond on an individual basis to these requests, given the extensive administrative processes and costs associated with undertaking these processes.

In recent years, the planning section has been prioritising reducing the overall number of records of protected structures in the county (reduced from nine records to four records in the last three years) to reduce the administrative burden in maintaining these records.

Nonetheless, the planning section maintains a record of all such requests, and will seek to prioritise any such requests in further reviews of the record of protected structures, she added.