Limerick County Council grants permission for 95-home scheme at Kilbane Castletroy, Co. Limerick

In context

It is one of 77 housing scheme applications Limerick County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,568 nationally. Of the 3,037 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 26 March 2026. 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 Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) on land situated between the Groody Road and Caisleán Na hAbhann, in the townland of Kilbane, Castletroy, Co. Limerick for a period of seven years. The development consists of 95 no. apartments, 22 no. houses and a Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) scheme comprising 309 no. student bedspaces. The apartment units are distributed across 4 no. separate blocks of 4.5 storeys in height and comprise (a) 18 no. 1 bed units; (b) 74 no. 2 bed units; and (c) 3 no. 3 bed units. The houses comprise 2 storey units including (a) 8 no. 4 bed units and (b) 14 no. 3 bed units. The PBSA scheme is distributed across 4 no. separate blocks of 5 storeys in height including provision of (a) 3 no. 7 bed apartments; (b) 36 no. 8 bed apartments; and (c) ancillary building service infrastructure at ground floor level in Block 1 including communal space, laundry faciliities and a meeting room. The development also includes (a) provision of a creche and (b) ancillary site development works including (i) car and bicycle parking; (ii) bicycle stands; (iii) 2 no. bicycle sheds; (iii) boundary treatments; (iv) public lighting; (v) water supply; foul and surface water drainage infrastructure;? (vi) ESB substation; (vii) temporary construction access; and (viii) landscaping. Vehicular and pedestrian access to the site will be from the Groody Road and Caisleán Na hAbhann. Planning permission is also sought for use of the accommodation, outside of student term time, for short-term letting purposes.??