118-home scheme proposed at Newtownholmes Road, Caltragh & Cornageeha, Co. Sligo

In context

It is one of 18 housing scheme applications Sligo County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,548 nationally. Of the 3,018 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 Sligo County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

The development will consist of: • Construction of 118 no. residential units to include; 8 no. 2 bedroom semi-detached houses, 40 no. 3 bedroom semi-detached houses, 41 no. 4 bedroom detached houses, 1 no. 5 bedroom semi-detached house, 8 no. 1 bedroom apartments, 20 no. 2 bedroom apartments; • Development of 1 no. creche facility with associated outdoor play areas and parking; • Ancillary structures including ESB substations and associated switch rooms, bicycle and bin stores; • Provision of public and communal open spaces, private open space, site landscaping, public lighting, footpaths, roads, parking, foul and surface water drainage and all associated site development works; • The application includes the provision of 2 no. access roads and construction of footpath & cyclepath along the Newtownholmes Road.