Mayo County Council grants permission for 97-home scheme at Carrowbaun, Westport, Co. Mayo

In context

It is one of 40 housing scheme applications Mayo 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 applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 4 February 2026. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

The development will consist of the construction of 97 residential units consisting of: 19 detached housing units (4-bed), 33 terraced housing units (2, 3 & 4-bed), 9 own-door apartments (1 & 2-bed), 18 ground floor terraced own-door apartments (2-bed) and 18 own-door terraced duplex apartments (3-bed), creche / shell-space community building, new site access points (vehicular and pedestrian), site landscaping, boundary treatments, public lighting, connection to the existing site services (water and foul waste), and all other associated site works