Meath County Council grants permission for 70-home scheme at South Of Baltrasna Manor, Ashbourne, Co. Meath

In context

It is one of 104 housing scheme applications Meath County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,638 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% 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 1 November 2023. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

the proposed development consists of 70 no. dwellings, comprised of 40 no. 2, 3 and 4 bed, 2 storey, terraced and semi-detached houses, and 30 no. 1, 2, and 3 bed apartments/duplex units, accommodated in 2 no. 3 storey blocks. Access to the proposed development will via a new vehicular entrance off the Dublin Road. The proposed development also provides for all associated site development works, above & below ground, public open space, including hard and soft landscaping & boundary treatments, car parking, bin & bicycle stores, public lighting etc., all on an overall application site area of c.1.9 hectares