65-home scheme proposed at Lands incorporating Dealgan House, No.1 Carrickmacross Road, Co. Louth

In context

It is one of 76 housing scheme applications Louth 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 five-week window for public submissions has closed. The council normally decides within eight weeks of the application being lodged, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

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 development to comprise a total 65no. residential units as follows: (a) The demolition of Dealgan House and associated site clearance works. (b) The provision of a total of 43no. residential dwellings which will consist of 2no. 2bed units, 40no. 3bed units and 1no. 4bed unit. (c) The provision of a total of 22no. 2bed apartments in a building which is part four and part five storeys in height. The apartment building incorporates provision of bins, bicycle and bulky items storage area at ground level. (d) Provision of associated car parking at surface level. (e) Provision of electric vehicle charge points with associated site infrastructure ducting to provide charge points for residents throughout the site. (f) Creation of a new access point from Carrickmacross Road with associated works. (g) Provision of internal access roads and footpaths and associated works. (h) Provision of residential public open space along with provision of communal open space areas to include a formal play area along with all hard and soft landscape works with public lighting, planting and boundary treatments to include boundary walls, railings & fencing. (i) Provision of an ESB substation. (j) Internal site works and attenuation systems. (k) All ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate foul, water and service networks for connection to the existing foul, water and ESB networks