51-home scheme proposed at The Rookery Tullyroe, Ballacolla Road (R433), Co. Laois

In context

It is one of 56 housing scheme applications Laois 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 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 Laois County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

Residential development comprising 51 residential units on a 1.99 hectare site (1.83 development area), comprising 4 no. four bedroom two storey detached dwellings, 4 no. four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 8 no three bedroom semi-detached dwellings houses, 7 no three bedroom mid terraced two storey dwellings, 10 no three bedroom two storey end of terrace dwellings, 4 no two bedroom two storey dwellings, 10 no two bedroom plus study two storey dwellings, 4 no one bedroom maisonettes over two storeys, ESB substation, and all associated site development works including footpaths, cycle paths, car parking, fencing, boundary walls, drainage, pumping station, bicycle and bin storage, landscaping and amenity areas and a revised vehicular access including the setting back of the existing front boundary wall.