Limerick County Council grants permission for 57-bedroom hotel at Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Dublin Road Castletroy, Co. Limerick

In context

It is one of 3 hotel applications Limerick County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 150 nationally. Of the 317 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 88% 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 20 February 2025. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

the expansion of bedroom accommodation on the site of the existing Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Dublin Road, Castletroy, Limerick. The proposed development will consist of (i) the development of a 4-storey building over semi-basement, compromising of 57no. bedroom Studios & Suites, (ii) Reception & admin area at ground floor level (iii) Laundry & kitchenette facilities on each level (iv) Lower Basement Plant area, Service zone & Staff changing, (v) Roof plant enclosure on 4th floor, new external open covered connections to the existing hotel, (vi) 31no. Car Parking space & 3 no. Bicycle compounds, re-alignment of internal roadway, re-alignment of existing carparking, new hard and soft landscaping, (viii) the provision of foul & surface water drainage , attenuation rain garden, and (ix) All other associated and ancillary works as required