Separate plans for new homes in Limerick, Cashel and Macroom
The Limerick plan includes a creche and the refurbishment of Ardhu House to provide ancillary residential amenity uses.
Planning has been approved for the construction of some 167 new apartments in five buildings in Limerick.
Tribeca Asset Management Limited (Trading as Tribeca Holdings) has been granted permission by Limerick City & County Council for a large-scale residential development at Ardhu House on Ennis Road, Roses Avenue and North Circular Road in Limerick.
Ardhu House is a protected structure.
The plan includes the development of 167 apartments in five new residential buildings, ranging from three to five storeys.
It also includes a creche and the refurbishment of Ardhu House to provide ancillary residential amenity uses, and the refurbishment of the Ardhu Bar licenced premises.
Private balconies and terraces are proposed for all apartments, and the works will see the demolition of extensions built to the front, side and rear of Ardhu House during the 20th century.
The refurbished Ardhu House will be home to a gym, a co-working space, and administrative space, as well as dining, cinema, and games rooms on other floors.
Some 94 parking spaces, are to be allocated to the residential development, as well as some 313 bicycle spaces.
In Tipperary, plans for more than 100 new homes in Cashel have been approved.
The town is to see 101 dwellings built after a large-scale residential development scheme was greenlit by local planners.
Dulla Developments Ltd has been granted permission for the development at Hughes Lot East, Cashel.
The development includes a creche and will see public realm works, including the construction of a new roundabout.
The homes include a number of houses, as well as apartments, while there is also a provision for more than 200 parking spaces.
Elsewhere, a development of some 16 houses in Macroom is now free to proceed after An Bord Pleanála overturned a decision by the local council to reject it.
Carraiganine Holdings Limited had been refused permission by Cork County Council for the proposals at Chapel Hill, Sleveen East, Macroom.
The proposed development is focused on a 0.59ha site in the town and would be accessed via an existing housing estate named The Orchard.
The houses proposed were all three-bed dwellings, arranged in three linear blocks.
Planners at Cork County Council refused permission for the works on the basis that the applicant "failed to demonstrate that a satisfactory method for disposal of surface water" can be accommodated on the site.
The developer appealed this, though, noting that soakaways would used in the rear garden of each house as "nature-based solutions alone are not enough to deal with the volume of run-off".
Noting this and additional information provided in the appeal, An Bord Pleanála approved the scheme, subject to compliance with some 20 conditions.
