Cork County Council grants permission for 148-home scheme at Hazel Brooke Spaglen Mallow, Co. Cork

In context

It is one of 163 housing scheme applications Cork County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,641 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% 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 17 January 2024. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

The construction of a strategic housing development comprising of 148 no. residential units, a creche, the provision of landscaping and amenity area to include 3 no. local play areas and 3 no. neighbourhood play areas and all associated ancillary development to include the provision of improved pedestrian facilities including the installation of dropped kerbs and tactile paving, new pedestrian crossings and the realignment and improvement of the spa road junction and footpaths to the west, lighting, drainage, boundary treatments and bicycle & carparking and bin storage. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. ABP Ref 301429-18 (as amended by ABP 311986-21)