Sligo County Council refuses permission for 99-home scheme at Hazelwood Road, Hazelwood Demesne, Co. Sligo

In context

It is one of 18 housing scheme applications Sligo County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,577 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 12 August 2026. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

a residential development of 99 no. dwellings, a childcare facility and two GAA playing pitches and clubhouse facility. The proposed development will consist of the following: the demolition of the existing agricultural structures on site (276.8 sq.m); the construction of 99 no. residential dwellings consisting of 10 no. one bedroom duplex units, 20 no. two bedroom house units, 50 no. three bedroom house units, 7 no. four bedroom house units, and 12 no. five bedroom house units; the provision of 168 no. car parking spaces and 50 no. bicycle spaces for the residential units; the construction of a standalone childcare facility (455 sq.m) with 12 no. designated staff parking spaces and 6 no. drop off spaces; the provision of 3,072 sq.m of public open space and 61 sq.m of communal open space; two GAA playing pitches on an area of 1.895 ha to the west and south-west of the residential development; a two storey Clubhouse (522 sq.m) with a car parking area providing for 2 no. bus spaces, 30 no. car parking spaces and 6 no. accessible spaces, associated with the GAA Pitches; the provision of a new entrance onto the R286 Hazelwood Road for vehicular, pedestrian and cycling access; the provision of a new pedestrian footpath and cycle lane (88m) along the R286 Hazelwood Road and a pedestrian crossing; and all associated and ancillary infrastructure (including surface water and foul water drainage and water supply), bin storage, internal streets, public lighting, landscaping, boundary treatments and development works, all on a site of 8.2 ha to the south of the Hazelwood Road (R286)