72-home scheme proposed at Knocknaconnery, Cregg Road, Co. Tipperary

In context

It is one of 49 housing scheme applications Tipperary County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,557 nationally. Of the 3,030 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.

1. The construction of 72 no. residential units comprising: a. 4 no. 2-bed houses, b. 40 no. 3-bed houses, c. 24 no. 4-bed houses, d. 2 no. 2-bed duplex units, e. 2 no. 1-bed duplex units. 2. Provision of a new pedestrian and vehicular access to Cregg Road (R697) and the provision of a shared access laneway. 3. Provision of all associated surface water and foul drainage services, provision of an attenuation tank and sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS), connections and sewer upgrade works and all associated site works and ancillary services. 4. Provision of communal open space, private open space, site landscaping and boundary treatments, public lighting, resident and visitor car parking, bicycle parking, pedestrian, cycle, and vehicular links throughout the development, and all other associated site development works