Meath County Council grants permission for 319-home scheme at Trim, Co. Meath

In context

It is one of 99 housing scheme applications Meath 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 1 May 2026. 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.

A Large Scale Residential Develepment - LRD - amendments to Strategic Housing Development (SHD) approved under An Coimisiún Pleanála Ref. ABP-307507-20 (as extended by Meath County Council planning reference Reg. Ref. 25/145) comprising: (i) omission of 8 no. three-storey duplex blocks (accommodating 64 no. duplex apartments – 32 no. two-bedroom & 32 no. three-bedroom) and removal of associated vehicular parking areas, bicycle stores, communal amenity areas, hard/soft landscaping and circulation areas; (ii) provision of 43 no. two-storey houses (5 no. semi-detached three-bedroom units & 38 no. terraced three-bedroom units) each served by private amenity space to the rear and 2 no. on-curtilage car parking spaces; and, (iii) all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development inclusive of revised road/footpath layout, revised open space layout, landscaping, boundary treatments and SuDS drainage. On foot of the proposed amendment, the scheme will comprise a mix of 10 no. two- bedroom houses, 148 no. three-bedroom houses, 20 no. four-bedroom houses, 11 no. studio apartments, 30 no. one-bedroom apartments, 71 no. two-bedroom apartments and 8 no. three- bedroom apartments for a total of 298 no. residential units in lieu of the 319 no. residential units approved under An Coimisiún Pleanála Ref. ABP-307507-20