72-home scheme proposed at Kilmactrasna, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan

In context

It is one of 24 housing scheme applications Monaghan 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 Monaghan County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

permission to construct 72 No. dwellings comprising of the following: 2 No. Two-Storey 4 Bed detached, 4 No. Two-Storey 3 Bed detached, 54 No. Two-Storey 3 Bed semi-detached, 8 No. Two-Storey 2 Bed semi-detached, 4 No. One and a half Storey 4 Bed detached. Works also include a new vehicular entrance onto an existing public access together with a new pedestrian footpath, connections to mains services including water, foul and storm, new playground, associated open space, landscaping & boundary treatments together with all associated works