91-home scheme proposed at Drogheda, 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 (a) the construction of 91 no. dwellings comprising a mix of house-types and apartments including: (i) 4 no. 2-storey, 4-bedroom, detached dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type: F/F1); (ii) 14 no. 2-storey, 4-bedroom semi-detached dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type G/G1); (iii) 2 no. 2-storey, 3-bedroom detached dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type D); (iv) 22 no. 2-storey, 3-bedroom semi-detached dwelling with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type A); (v) 22 no. 2-storey, 3-bedroom terraced dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type B); (vi) 12 no. 2-storey, 2-bedroom terraced dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type C); (vii) 3 no. duplex units (Maisonette Type Y1) comprising 2 -storey, 2-bedroom units with private balconies/terraces; (viii) 12 no. 2-bedroom apartments (Apartment Types X1 and X2) with private balconies/terraces, together with associated circulation areas, bin storage, 48 no. secure bicycle parking spaces and 8 no. Visitor cycle parking spaces, all provided within a 3-storey apartment building (b) provision of 1 no. vehicular access/egress point to the development from approved PANCR (Port Access Norther Cross Route Drogheda); (c) provision of 161 no. car parking spaces to serve the residential development; (d) provision of public open space (0.26ha) and communal open space (0.01ha); (e) The proposed development will also include the provision of internal roads, footpaths, public lighting, landscaping, boundary treatments, bin storage, foul and surface water drainage infrastructure including water surface water attenuation and connections to existing water supply and wastewater services, together with all ancillary site development works necessary to facilitate the development