Tipperary County Council grants permission for 101-home scheme at Hughes Lot East, Cashel, Co. Tipperary

In context

It is one of 50 housing scheme applications Tipperary County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,641 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% 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 19 April 2024. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

a large scale residential development (LRD), the site is bounded at the South by the R691 Dualla Road, Crottys Lane to the North, undeveloped residential zoned lands to the West and private residences to the East boundary - the development will consist of the erection of 101 dwellings, a childcare facility, construction of a new roundabout and link road and ancillary works on a gross site area of 3.96ha. The proposed development will be accessed from the new roundabout on the R691 Dualla Road and is more specifically described as follows: • 12 no. one- bedroom maisonettes in two-storey semi-detached blocks, • 49 no. three-bedroom two storey semi-detached houses, • 2 no.three-bedroom two storey terraced houses, • 1 no four-bedroom two storey semi-detached house, • 11 no four-bedroom two storey detached houses, • 6no. two-bedroom two-storey terraced houses, • 9 no one-bedroom apartments and 11 no 2 bedroom apartments in a 3 storey building, • a childcare facility (Creche) gross floor space 240m2 , refuse stores and secure bicycle store all located within the ground floor of the apartment building, • 201 car parking spaces, (164 residential, and 37 for visitors and creche) , creche set down area, secure outdoor creche play area, 20 secure cycle spaces and 20 visitor cycle spaces (bicycle stand), • the proposed development will include new entrances leading onto the R691 Dualla Road to the South of the application site and L54151 Crotty’s Lane to the North, construction of a new link road between Dualla Road to the south of the application site and Crotty’s Lane to the North and alterations to the R691 Dualla Road to include new roundabout, new raised tables and pedestrian crossings, • private, communal and public landscaped amenity spaces, internal estate road network, pedestrian pavement network including new internal pedestrian pavements extending to the North and South boundaries of the proposal, inter-site boundary walls and fences, new site boundary walls and fences, undergrounding of existing overhead electricity supply cables traversing the development site, erection of a new ESB sub station, public lighting, public drainage and water services connections and associated site development works