68-home scheme proposed at Castlebar, Co. Mayo

In context

It is one of 40 housing scheme applications Mayo County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 nationally. Of the 3,032 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 Mayo County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

1. Construction of a housing development (Garryduff Park West) of 68 no. dwellings in two and three storey semi-detached and terraced houses and duplex / apartment configurations; 2. Vehicular and pedestrian/cycle access point to Garryduff Park (also facilitating other/future phases of housing subject to separate planning application(s)); and, 3. Associated development and works and development including hard and soft landscaping, internal roads and footpaths, cycle and car parking, public and private amenity and open spaces (including games area), boundary treatments, bin stores, public lighting and all other ancillary works above and below ground including connections to water supply, surface water infrastructure, wastewater infrastructure and utilities.