Laois County Council grants permission for 98-home scheme at Meadows Fort, Crossneen Graiguecullen Carlow Environs, 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 8 August 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 (a) 98 no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings which will consist of the following unit mix: 10no. 4-bed dwellings, 76no. 3-bed dwellings, and 12no. 2-bed dwellings, (b) Provision of new internal roadways and footpaths by extension of the proposed residential access road from Meadows Way and a possible link with Meadows Fort the subject of a concurrent planning application (Pl. Ref: 25/60210), with associated works to facilitate vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access and car parking; (c) Provision of a shared footpath and cycle lane connection with the adjacent Highfield Manor Estate to the south; (d) Provision of open space areas to include all hard and soft landscape works, planting and boundary treatments; (e) All other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground including; surface water drainage system, foul sewerage network including connection to previously approved foul pumping station (Planning Reference 23/60019), public lighting and all ancillary site development works.