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Sat 03 Mar 2007Greystones developers failed to address traffic issues, hearing toldThe consortium proposing to redevelop Greystones harbour has failed to address issues relating to scale and traffic which were raised by An Bord Pleanála, it was alleged at a reopened oral hearing in Co Wicklow yesterday.Labour councillor Tom Fortune said An Bord Pleanála had asked the developers - a consortium involving Wicklow County Council - to reduce the scale of the housing; to indicate how traffic volumes could be lowered; to remove an old dump on part of the site and to examine the possibility of bringing material to the site by sea.