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.

construct a residential development of 51 residential units on a 1.99 hectare site (1.83 development area), comprising the following two storey dwellings • 4 no. four bedroom detached dwellings, • 4 no. four bedroom semi-detached dwellings, • 8 no. three bedroom semi -detached dwellings, • 7 no three bedroom mid terraced dwellings, • 10 no three bedroom end of terrace dwelling, • 6 no two bedroom end of terrace dwellings, • 7 no two bedroom mid terrace dwellings, • 1 no. two bedroom detached dwelling, • 4 no one bedroom maisonettes over two storeys and all associated site development works including ESB substation, car parking, fencing, boundary walls, foul and surface water drainage including a pumping station, bicycle parking, bin storage, landscaping and amenity areas and a revised vehicular access including the setting back of the existing front boundary wall. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development.