Infrastructure, Clifden, St Anne's Community Nursing Unit, Westport Road Clifden

for the development consisting of the demolition of non-protected existing buildings and glazed porch and construction of an extension to and refurbishment of existing Protected Structure to create a 40-bed Residential Care Centre with gross floor area of 4,337m2 on a site of 1.46Ha, consisting of: (1) two-storey courtyard building, rectangular in plan, containing 38 single bedrooms with ensuite and one twin room with ensuite, along with support accommodation: sitting and activity rooms, day spaces, sanitary accommodation, pantries, stores, stairs and lifts, roof top plant and roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels; (2) two-storey support wing containing production kitchen, staff changing, family accommodation, stair and lift, plant rooms, screened roof plant areas, and roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels; 3) two-storey glazed links containing corridors, entrance lobby, and reception; (4) reconfiguration of the Protected Structure to provide administrative areas, staff changing, resident support areas, and Day Hospital containing day room, reflection room, hairdressing, physiotherapy areas, clinic rooms, and associated support areas; (5) external works in the form of improved existing site entrances, new landscaped gardens, screened plant areas, electrical substation, liquefied petroleum gas tanks, 37 car parking spaces, bicycle parking, new internal roads and paths, new foul and surface water drainage installations, including SUDS measures, and flood mitigation measures incorporating the diversion of existing culvert to new watercourse with flood retention basins. The application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). Gross floor space of proposed works: 3200 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 149 sqm

Planning authority

galwaycountycouncil

Lead planning reference

2460018

Application date

11 Jan 2024

Decision date

11 Jul 2024

Project type

Infrastructure

Value band

€10m–30m

Planning-case scale and each commencement-event quantity remain separate; notice quantities are never added into a project total.

Planning-case scale and each commencement-event quantity remain separate; notice quantities are never added into a project total.