Laois County Council grants permission for 67-home scheme at Cooltederry, Portarlington, Co. Laois

In context

It is one of 54 housing scheme applications Laois 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 applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 12 June 2025. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Laois County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

construct residential development comprising 67 No. dwellings of 2-3 storeys in height. The proposed development will fully complete the unfinished Castlelea / Gandon / Landsdowne Estates granted previously (under the original Laois County Council Planning Reg. Ref. No.: (03/1665) and consists of: 6 No. two-bedroom terrace dwellings, 23 No. three-bedroom terrace dwellings, 18 No. three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, 2 No. three-bedroom detached dwellings, 16 No. four-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, and 2 No. four-bedroom detached dwellings; all with associated vehicular parking, boundary treatments, private and public open spaces, hard and soft landscaping, roads, pedestrian walkways and all other ancillary and associated site development