278-home scheme proposed at Rathgowan or Farranshock (townland), Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

In context

It is one of 36 housing scheme applications Westmeath County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,568 nationally. Of the 3,037 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 is due to decide by 10 September 2026, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

The development description, as lodged

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

the following Large-scale Residential Development (LRD) comprising of 278 no. residential units, 1 no. childcare facility and all ancillary development works including 3 no. ESB substations, footpaths, cycle lanes, car and bicycle parking, drainage, bin storage, public lighting, landscaping/amenity areas and boundary treatments. Access will be via Rathgowan Park from the existing roundabout on the R394 (C-Link Road) to the south and the R393 Ashe Road to the north. Site development works include the decommissioning and relocation of existing underground surface water attenuation tanks and the diversion of 2 no. existing foul sewer lines. The 2-no. existing foul lines will outfall to a new single foul pipe proposed as part of the new drainage network.