Meath County Council grants permission for 171-home scheme at Old Navan Road, Dunboyne, Co. Meath

In context

It is one of 98 housing scheme applications Meath County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,557 nationally. Of the 3,030 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 13 February 2025. 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 will consist of the following: a) Development of 171 no. residential units as follows: i. 114 no. houses comprising 101 3-bedroom houses, and 13 no. 4-bedroom houses, ranging in size from c. 107.6 sqm to c. 153 sqm, all 2-storeys in height. Each house will have an associated rear/side private garden. ii. 57 no. apartment/duplex units comprising the following: 5 no. 1-bedroom units of c. 56 sqm to 66.9 sqm, 26 no. 2-bedroom units of c. 78.8 sqm to 120.2 sqm., and 26 no. 3-bedroom units of c. 119 sqm to 128.6 sqm. in 7 no. blocks ranging in height from 2 to 3 storeys. All apartment and duplex units will be provided with private open space areas in the form of balconies/terraces. iii. Communal open space associated with the proposed apartment units will be provided in the form of landscaped areas located in the vicinity of the apartment units (of c. 595 sqm). iv. Provision of 301 no. car parking spaces across the development site (inclusive of accessible (4 no.) and EV (60 no.) parking spaces) and 195 no. bicycle parking spaces for residents and visitors of the scheme provided throughout the development site. b) 1 no. childcare facility of c. 161 sqm with associated outdoor amenity space of c. 40sqm. c) The provision of landscaped public open space amenity areas (totalling c. 6971 sqm). d) Surface water drainage infrastructure on a site of c. 0.36 ha on the eastern side of the railway line (all lands in the control of the applicant). e) Section of the Dunboyne Eastern Distributor Road from the western site boundary with Navan Road to the eastern site boundary. This includes all associated vehicular and pedestrian accesses, carriageways, paths and junctions. The following planning application - Meath Co. Co. Reg Ref 24/60063 – encroaches the application lands in this regard. f) The development will also consist of all associated site development works, demolition of an existing disused entrance way, services provision, infrastructural and drainage works, vehicular connections, internal access roads, homezones, cycle and pedestrian infrastructure, bin stores, bicycle stores, apartment storage, carparking, public lighting, communal and public open space, private open space in the form of the terraces/balconies, and rear/side gardens, as well as all landscape treatment works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application