~166 dwellings, Dublin Pike and, Ballyhooley Road, Ballincrokig - Planning Application 2442789

Heat pumps and ventilation: options, not one settled schedule

Proposed alternatives · Cork City 24/42789: original 166-dwelling application, before later details were agreed

What the evidence says
The energy statement offers individual systems for houses and apartments: exhaust-air heat pumps, air-source heat pumps with mechanical ventilation and heat recovery, or an electric-heating solution with PV and/or heat pumps and ventilation heat recovery.

Why it may matter — interpretation
Heating and ventilation suppliers can identify the technologies considered and the design questions that still need a phase-specific answer.

What is not established
The selected system, manufacturer, installer and equipment fitted in any particular dwelling are not established.

Solar PV is considered, not confirmed as installed

Proposed option · Cork City 24/42789: original 166-dwelling application, before later details were agreed

What the evidence says
Solar PV is a candidate renewable technology in the energy strategy and part of one heating option. This file does not establish a fixed panel count or capacity for the commenced houses.

Why it may matter — interpretation
This is relevant to renewable-energy design and supply, provided the later equipment schedule and roof/phase scope are checked.

What is not established
A PV installation, panel quantity, system capacity or available contract is not established.

Envelope targets have differing assessment assumptions

Outline targets; differing model assumptions · Cork City 24/42789: original 166-dwelling application, before later details were agreed

What the evidence says
The outline specification sets roof, wall and floor U-values at no more than 0.13, 0.14 and 0.12 W/m²K, with windows at 1.20 W/m²K and air permeability at 2.5 m³/m²h at 50 Pa. The later assessment assumptions use 1.30 W/m²K for windows and 3.0 for air permeability.

Why it may matter — interpretation
The targets give insulation, window and airtightness specialists a useful specification starting point and a clear discrepancy to resolve.

What is not established
Final selected products, installed performance and the applicable approved window/airtightness schedule are not established.

The air-to-water example belongs to an earlier house assessment

Reference assessment; not current-phase installation evidence · Reference assessment: Coppenger Fields Phase 5, house type A1, permission 19/38655; not a certificate for the current scheme

What the evidence says
The energy appendix uses a three-bedroom semi-detached reference dwelling from Coppenger Fields Phase 5, house type A1, under permission 19/38655. Its test-data pages describe an air-to-water heat pump; this is an example used to inform the later proposal.

The appendix report was created 26 October 2023; the enclosing energy statement is dated 19 February 2024.

Why it may matter — interpretation
The example explains the design approach while keeping an older house and the current permission distinct.

What is not established
It is not a BER or installation certificate for houses 49–54 or for all 166 dwellings in 24/42789.

The lifecycle report is an indicative early services description

Draft, indicative proposal · Cork City 24/42789: original 166-dwelling application, before later details were agreed

What the evidence says
The draft lifecycle report describes exhaust-air heat-pump water heating with a backup heater for houses and duplex/apartment buildings. It explicitly defers detailed services specifications and uses indicative information.

Why it may matter — interpretation
This identifies a domestic-hot-water design intention and the need to obtain the later mechanical and electrical specification.

What is not established
It does not establish that this system was selected or installed throughout the scheme.

EV charging and future ducting are required by the permission

Permission condition · Cork City 24/42789 / ABP-320996-24: conditions of the 29 January 2025 permission

What the evidence says
Condition 12 requires charging stations or points for at least 10% of proposed parking spaces, with ducting to the remaining spaces for later charging-point fitout. Detailed compliance proposals require council agreement.

Why it may matter — interpretation
The permission establishes an electrical-infrastructure requirement, including a distinction between equipped spaces and future ducting.

What is not established
The final approved charging layout, installed count and availability of work are not established by the order alone.

The drainage requirement points to specific appeal revisions

Permission condition with named revisions · Cork City 24/42789 / ABP-320996-24: conditions of the 29 January 2025 permission

What the evidence says
Condition 7 ties Attenuation Basin 4 and its weirs to appeal drawings 23031-GA-44 B, 23031-GA-45 B, 23031-GA-46B and 23031-GA-49 B submitted on 4 October 2024, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the council.

Why it may matter — interpretation
Drainage and civil-engineering readers can identify which design revision the decision requires them to check.

What is not established
Later agreed drainage changes and as-built delivery have not been fully reviewed.

Finishes agreement covers five named house types

Council agreement limited to named types · House types 1.A, 1.B1, 1.B2, 1.C and 1.E1 only, in the 11 August 2025 council response

What the evidence says
On 11 August 2025, Cork City Council accepted submitted materials and finishes for types 1.A, 1.B1, 1.B2, 1.C and 1.E1. It described compliance with Condition 4 as partial and still required details for the remaining types.

Why it may matter — interpretation
Façade, window and external-finish specialists need the house-type schedule before treating one specification as applicable across the development.

What is not established
The linked July schedule now identifies materials and door products. Agreement for the remaining house types, installed products and phase-specific quantities remain unverified.

The council agreed a later lighting submission in February 2026

Council agreement with submitted details · Condition 13: lighting details submitted 6 January 2026 and agreed 27 February 2026

What the evidence says
The council’s 27 February 2026 letter confirms agreement with Condition 13 lighting details submitted on 6 January 2026. The condition includes pedestrian-route lighting through open spaces and consistency with biodiversity mitigation.

Why it may matter — interpretation
Lighting and landscape readers can distinguish the agreed later submission from the original application drawings.

What is not established
The linked later report now supplies an equipment schedule. Council agreement still does not establish installation or allocation to each commenced phase.

Houses 49–54 can be mapped to their drawing types

Council-agreed numbering; exact drawing labels reviewed · Condition 10 numbered compliance drawing, Revision F, March 2025, in the 24/42789 file; council agreement 4 April 2025

What the evidence says
The numbered compliance drawing labels the six plots as 49: 1.B2m; 50: 1.B1; 51: 1.Am; 52: 1.A; 53: 1.B1m; 54: 1.B2. The council agreed the submitted numbering details on 4 April 2025.

Why it may matter — interpretation
These are the plot numbers in CN0144029CY. Their type labels identify the drawings and later services schedules to check for this six-house commencement.

What is not established
The drawing establishes type labels, not installed equipment. The m suffix is retained exactly; this review does not assume a mirrored type has identical approved finishes or services.

The later lighting design contains a 79-luminaire schedule

Later submitted design linked to council agreement · Condition 13: lighting details submitted 6 January 2026 and agreed 27 February 2026

What the evidence says
The revised lighting design lists 79 luminaires across eight schedule types: A 4, B 1, C 3, D 40, E 13, F 12, G 5 and H 1. The schedule names AXIA 3.1 and AXIA 3.2 luminaires with 3000 K LED lamp data.

Why it may matter — interpretation
This supplies a concrete lighting quantity and named product family from the government-published design, linked to the later council agreement.

What is not established
These are design quantities for the stated layout, not a verified installed count or a six-house allocation. Site-survey changes, purchasing, installer appointment and any remaining work package are unverified.

Later finishes identify named materials and door products

Later submitted specification linked to partial council agreement · House types 1.A, 1.B1, 1.B2, 1.C and 1.E1 only, in the 11 August 2025 council response

What the evidence says
The July submission specifies black flat roof tiles and blue/black concrete ridges; a K-Rend sand-and-cement smooth finish painted Polar White; black PVC fascia/soffits, round downpipes and seamless gutters; Roadstone 50 mm Charcoal paving; 170 mm limestone without a plinth; anthracite-grey windows; Ultratech hardwood front doors and AluP aluminium sliding rear doors. The council accepted materials for the five named house types on 11 August 2025.

July replaces the earlier quartz-stone proposal. Agreement is limited to the council-named house types; quantities, purchasing and installed products are unverified.

Why it may matter — interpretation
Roofing, render, stone, paving, glazing and door suppliers can identify actual specified materials and product names from the official file, and distinguish the later submission from the earlier proposal.

What is not established
No material quantities, procurement availability or installed-product verification are established. The drawings illustrate particular type arrangements; this does not certify the exact finishes installed at houses 49–54 or establish agreement for other house types.