Louth County Council grants permission for 98-home scheme at Drogheda, Co. Louth

In context

It is one of 79 housing scheme applications Louth County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,638 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% 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 September 2023. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

Permission for (a) the construction of 98 no. dwellings comprising a mix of house-types including: (i) 58 no. two-storey, three-bedroom, terraced units with roof lights on rear roof slope (House Type D2); (ii) 16 no. two-storey, three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings (House Type C & C1); (iii) 8 no. two-storey, two-bedroom terraced houses (House Type E); and (iv) 16 no. two-storey, four-bedroom semi-detached houses (House Type G & G1). All dwellings will contain 2 no. on-curtilage car parking spaces; (b) Access provided via Phase 1 development which connects with Termonfeckin Road (R166); (c) The proposed development will also include the provision of cycle lanes, roads, private open space, public open space, provision of foul drainage, surface water attenuation and connection to mains water supply including pump station, ESB substation, street lighting, landscaping, boundary treatments and all ancillary site development works necessary to facilitate the development. This application relates to Phase 2 on the overall landholding. Phase 1 was recently granted under Reg. Ref. 22877. Planning permission for a residential development exists on site under Reg. Ref. 07/1791 as extended by Reg. Ref. 18/560