99-home scheme proposed at Drogheda, Co. Louth

In context

It is one of 87 housing scheme applications Louth County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,613 nationally. Of the 3,069 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% were granted.

What happens next

Anyone can make a submission or observation to Louth County Council until 4 November 2026, for a fee of €20. Only those who make a submission can later appeal the decision. The council is due to decide by 25 November 2026, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

How to make a submission

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 99 no. dwellings comprising a mix of house types and apartments including: (i) 57 no. 2-storey, 3-bedroom dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Types A, B & F); (ii) 21 no. 2-storey, 2-bedroom dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type C); (iii) 8 no. 2-storey, 4-bedroom dwellings with pitched roof profiles and private rear gardens (House Type D & G); (iv) 2 no. duplex units (Type Y1) comprising 2 -storey, 3-bedroom units with private balconies/terraces; (viii) 11 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 Beaulieu Village; (c) provision of 188 no. car parking spaces (172 on-curtilage, 16 to serve apartments inclusive of 1 no. disable and 2 no. car club spaces) to serve the residential development; (d) provision of public open space (0.36ha) and communal open space (0.03ha); (e) The proposed development will also include the provision of internal roads, footpaths, public lighting, landscaping, boundary treatments, bin storage, foul (connected via pipe to Beaulieu Village to south) 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