Cork County Council grants permission for 98-home scheme at Oakfield, Rathgoggan Middle, 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 24 March 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.

Extension of Duration. Permission for 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, 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.