Clare County Council grants permission for 79-home scheme at Shannon Road, Sixmilebridge Ennis, Co. Clare

In context

It is one of 24 housing scheme applications Clare 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 applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 11 December 2025. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

for a development comprising 74 no. residential units, (6 no. detached houses, 40 no. semi-detached houses, 28 no. terrace houses), ancillary surface car parking, vehicular & pedestrian access to the proposed development, connection to existing public water supply, storm water and foul water drainage services including the provision of surface water attenuation and all associated boundary treatment, site development and landscape works