Changes sought to permitted 98-home scheme at Oakfield, Rathgoggan, 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 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 Cork County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

A residential development comprising 98 no. residential units, (44 no. semi-detached houses and 48 no. terrace houses and 6 no. one bedroom apartments), and a creche building and all ancillary site development works. Ancillary site development works include connection to the public water main and foul sewer, surface water drainage and attenuation, and access roads, footpaths, vehicle parking, landscaping, boundary treatments and site development works above and below ground. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 21/4872