Limerick County Council grants permission for 89-home scheme at Newtown, Castletroy, Co. Limerick

In context

It is one of 77 housing scheme applications Limerick County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,557 nationally. Of the 3,030 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 30 August 2024. 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.

a residential development comprising 89 no. residential units, ((i) 20 x No. semi-detached dwellings units, (ii) 5 x No. semi-detached buildings (which comprise of a semi-detached dwelling combined with a two bedroom ground floor apartment and a one bed first floor apartment); (iii) 2 x No. terraced buildings (which comprise 10 x No. terraced units; 4 x No. ground floor apartments and 4 x No. 3 x Bedroom duplex units over head; (iv) 4 x No. ground floor apartments & 4 x No. 3 x Bedroom duplex units overhead; (v) 1 x No. 5 storey apartment block with 19 x No. 2 bedroom apartments and 1 x No. 1 bedroom apartment; (vi) 1 x No. 5 storey apartment block with 16 x No. 2 bedroom apartments (vii) Creche accessed via an existing entrance onto the Castletroy College Road and all ancillary site works. Ancillary site development works include a new connection to the public water main, foul and surface water drainage, access roads, footpaths, vehicle parking, landscaping, boundary treatments and site development works above and below ground