Residents in Ennistymon are furious after Clare County Council withdrew an application to back-fill steps at Blake's corner.
Senior Engineers say the application was most likey refused as such a development would contravene the council's own Development Plan.
This includes the local authority's preferred route for a new relief road would require demolition of a number of homes and a business so that the unoccupied Blake’s and Linnane’s buildings in the town can be preserved.