Carlow County Council grants permission for 64-home scheme at Chapelstown, Co. Carlow

In context

It is one of 28 housing scheme applications Carlow County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 nationally. Of the 3,032 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 9 May 2025. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Carlow County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

the development will consist of the development of 64 no. houses (8 no. four bedroom and 56 no. three bedroom houses), which will form Phase 1 of the overall development of the wider site and will comprise of the following mix of two storey semi-detached and terraced housing units within an overall mix of: - 46 no. two storey semi-detached dwelling units (5 no. 4 bedroom houses (House type A); and 41 no. 3 bedroom houses (16 no. house type B and 25 no. house type C); and - 18 no. two storey terraced dwelling units that are contained within 5 no. terraces (3 no. terraces of 4 units each containing 3 no. 4 bedroom houses (House type A) and 9 no. 3 bedroom units (House type B); and 2 no. terraces of 3 units each (6 no. 3 bedroom houses - House type C). The development will include the creation of a new vehicular access and a separate pedestrian access into the site off the Link Road (R725) that will provide access to all houses that will each be served by 2 no. car parking spaces (128 car parking spaces overall); as well as all internal access roads and footpaths; hard and soft landscaping; boundary treatments and all infrastructural and ancillary site development works