Cork County Council grants permission for 246-home scheme at Cloheen Clonakilty, Co. Cork

In context

It is one of 155 housing scheme applications Cork 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 24 November 2025. 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.

A large-scale residential development (LRD), comprising of 246 no. residential dwellings as follows: 177 no. houses consisting of 3 no. 5-bed dwellings, 41 no. 4-bed dwellings, 90 no. 3-bed dwellings, 31 no. 2-bed dwellings and 12 no. 1-bed sheltered housing units; 6 no. 2-storey 4-unit apartment blocks consisting of 24 no. 2- bed units, and 3 no. 3-storey 15-unit apartment blocks consisting of 36 no. 2-bed units and 9 no. 1-bed units. The proposed development also includes a creche (473.77sqm) with capacity to accommodate 65 no. children. The proposed development will include provision for car parking, including EV charging points and bicycle parking. The proposed development will also include the provision of private, communal, and public open spaces; internal roads and pathways with potential for future links to adjacent lands; pedestrian and cyclist routes; hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatments; waste storage; plant; signage; a new access onto the local hotel road to the east, incorporating bridging of the existing stream with associated works to same, and a new access connecting to the L-9931-0 local road to the west; modifications to car parking at the Clonakilty Park Hotel and the provision of a roundabout; public lighting; new substation; road improvement works and pedestrian facilities at the N71 and Clonakilty Park Hotel junction; all associated site development works; and all drainage and foul sewer infrastructure and network works including connections to the existing networks on the N71 national road and the L-4007-52 local road, and nature-based SuDS measures. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) and an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR). The application may be inspected online at the following website: www.cloheenlrd.ie