87-home scheme proposed at Ashfield, Royal Oak Road, Co. Carlow

In context

It is one of 28 housing scheme applications Carlow County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,568 nationally. Of the 3,037 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% were granted.

What happens next

The five-week window for public submissions has closed. The council normally decides within eight weeks of the application being lodged, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

The development description, as lodged

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

the construction of 87 No. new dwellings consisting of 48 No. semi-detached houses, 7 No. terraced houses and 32 No. apartments together with roads, footpaths, lighting, landscaping and underground services including connection to existing public sewerage, water mains and all associated site works