74-home scheme proposed at N80 Mountmellick Road Maryborough, Portlaoise, 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 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 74 no. residential dwellings, comprising of 24 no. Duplexes, consisting of 12 no. two-bed units and 12 no. three-bed units over three storeys and 50 no. Apartments and Houses, consisting of 12 no. one-bed apartments, 10 no. two-bed apartments, 7 no. two-bed houses and 21 no. three-bed houses. All Apartments and Houses are two storeys. The development will also include the provision of private amenity space, 128 car parking spaces, including 6 visitor spaces, landscaped public open space, associated boundary treatments, street lighting, foul and SuDS drainage, and all associated site development works necessary to facilitate the development.