50-home scheme proposed at Knockeevan, Ballyclerihan, Co. Tipperary

In context

It is one of 49 housing scheme applications Tipperary 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 Tipperary County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

a Residential Development. The site is bounded by the Knockeevan residential estate to the West, Agricultural and Amenity land to the East, existing residential and employment and enterprise zoned lands to the North. The development will consist of the erection of 50 Dwellings on a site area of 2.9 Hectares. The development is accessed from a new entrance junction at the R688 ( Clonmel Road) and more specifically described as: 8 no. two storey three bedroom semi-detached dwellings, 20 no. two storey four bedroom semi detached dwellings, 22 no. two storey four bedroom detached dwellings, 120 no. car parking spaces (100 no. spaces for dwellings, 20 no. visitor spaces) and Private, communal and public landscaped amenity spaces, internal estate road network, pedestrian pavements, inter-site boundary walls and fences, new perimeter site boundary walls and fences, undergrounding of existing overhead electricity supply cables to the development site, public lighting, public drainage and water services connections, replacement of the existing defective storm water attenuation tank and pipework serving the Knockeevan estate, removal of 3 no. existing house foundation floor slabs and associated site development works