Tipperary County Council grants permission for 72-home scheme at Knocknaconnery, Cregg Road, Co. Tipperary

In context

It is one of 50 housing scheme applications Tipperary County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 nationally. Of the 3,032 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 16 April 2025. 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.

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) the provision of a new pedestrian and vehicular access to Cregg Road (R697) and the provision of a shared access laneway; 3) the 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) the 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