Cork County Council grants permission for 302-home scheme at Ballynamona (Townland), Dublin Road, Co. Cork

In context

It is one of 157 housing scheme applications Cork 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 16 January 2026. 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.

Permission for the following Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) consisting of the construction of 302 no. residential units, 1 no. creche, 2 no. ESB substations and all associated development works including footpath/cycle path extensions and road improvement works along the R639. Permission for internal connections, crossings, footpaths and cycle paths, car and bicycle parking, drainage, fencing and boundary treatments, bicycle and bin stores, lighting and landscaping/amenity areas. Permission for the demolition of walls currently traversing the site as well as removal of vegetation and scrub and the repurposing of a redundant bund. Access to the proposed development is provided to the west of the site [constituting a relocation of the existing access to the site] on the Dublin Road (R639). A Natura Impact Statement is submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. The application may be inspected online at the following website set up by the applicant: www.ballynamonalrd.ie