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Blackrock, Louth

Site start 23 Sep 2024

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This application has left our current planning lists, so this page is no longer updated. We last saw it in the council's register on 10 Jun 2026. The details below are as they were then. The council's register has the current status.

What and where

SHD STAGE 3

SHD STAGE 3 - Application lodged with An Bord Pleanála (Stage 2 Ref. 20/69) for provision of a total of 257no. residential units along with provision of a crèche. Particulars of the development comprise as follows: (a) Site excavation works to facilitate the proposed development to include excavation and general site preparation works along with removal of existing site compound. (b) The provision of a total of 163no. residential dwellings which will consist of the following unit mix -57no. 2 bed dwellings (house types 1, 1a, 1b) -76no. 3bed semi detached dwellings (house types 2, 2a, 2b, 3, 6) -5no. 3 bed terrace dwellings (terrace block 3) -13no.4 bed semi detached dwellings (house type 6a) -12no. 4 bed detached dwellings (house types 4 & 5) (c) The provision of a total of 94no. apartments/duplex units consisting of 19no. 1 bed units, 38no. 2bed units and 37no. 3bed units; (d) Provision of a creche; (e) Provision of associated car parking at surface level via a combination of in-curtilage parking for dwellings and via on-street parking for the creche, duplexes and apartments; (f) Provision of 4no. electric vehicle charge points adjacent to the creche building with associated site infrastructure ducting to provide charge points for residents throughout the site; (g) Provision of associated bicycle storage spaces with associated enclosures both at surface level throughout the site and bicycle storage facilities within apartment blocks 1 & 2; (h) Use of existing access from Dublin Road with associated upgrade works to facilitate vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access to include provision of a right turning lane; (i) Provision of a cycle path along Dublin Road; (j) Provision of internal access roads and footpaths and associated connections to the existing Earlsfort residential estate; (k) Provision of residential communal open space areas (including formal play areas) including all hard and soft landscape works with public lighting, planting and boundary treatments to include boundary walls, railings & fencing; (l) Provision of 2no. ESB substations; (m) Internal site works and attenuation systems to include a hydrocarbon and silt interceptor on the storm network prior to discharge to the adjacent watercourse; (n) All ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate foul, water and service networks for connection to the existing foul, water, gas and ESB networks. Number of units reduced to 216 by An Bord Pleanala

Location
Blackrock, Co. Louth Map
Planning reference
20696
Applicant
P.j. & E.j. Doherty Ltd
Agent
P.j. & E.j. Doherty Ltd

Key facts

Floor area
238 m²
Project type
Infrastructure
Site start
23 Sep 2024

Documents and evidence

Check the record

  • Council planning fileThe application file 20696 on eplanning.ie: drawings, reports and the decision.Open the council's file
  • From the planning documentsRead from Planning Report and Statement of Consistency in the council's file.
    Site area
    7.6 ha
    Applicant
    PJ & EJ Doherty Ltd
    Phasing
    Phases 4, 5 and 6 permitted under previous permission; proposed development includes creche and community facility.
    Scope
    The proposed development is for 257 residential units and a creche on brownfield lands at Earlsfort, Dundalk, under the Strategic Housing Development provisions.

How we know this

From the Louth County Council planning register, as last seen on 10 Jun 2026. The council's own file is the official record. Facts from the planning documents were read from the documents in that file.

Site starts

Commencement notices for this permission

  1. 23 Sep 2024Work started · Construction of 18 No. Dwelling Units C1-C18

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