94-home scheme proposed at Bohernamona Road, Thurles, Co. Tipperary

In context

It is one of 49 housing scheme applications Tipperary County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,638 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% 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 Tipperary County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

the construction of a residential development, comprised as follows: 94 no. dwellings, comprised of 7 no semi detached 4-bedroom House type A, 11 no. semi-detached 4 -bedroom 2-storey House Type A1, 21 no. 2-storey semi-detached 3-bedroom House Type B, 12 no. 2-storey semi-detached 3-bedroom House Type B1, 12 no. 2-storey semi-detached 3-bedroom House Type C, 8 no. 2-storey semi-detached 3-bedroom House Type C1, 12 no. 2-storey 3-bedroom House Type D (8 no. semidetached & 4 no. terraced units), 3 no 2-storey 3-bedroom House Type F (2 no. semidetached & 1 no. terraced units), 8 no. 1-bedroom own door duplex units House Type DU1 (4 no. ground floor & 4 no. first floor); the creation of a new cycleway, pedestrian walkway alongside Bohernamona Road, connecting to Loughtagalla Park, is proposed within the site; a creche building of 475 sq.m. for 57 no. childcare spaces is also proposed, as is the provision of amenity public open space to serve the development, together with the provision of internal access roads and footpaths, associated car parking spaces and bicycle parking spaces, and all associated site works, boundary treatments, site lighting, tree planting and earthworks, together with connection to mains foul drainage systems. The development is a first phase of the overall development of these lands