Go ahead given for new housing development in Louth Village

Louth County Council has given the go ahead for a development in Louth Village that will see the construction of eight new homes.

Hollywood Developments applied to the local authority in December 2022 for planning permission for the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling and the construction of eight dwellings on a site of c. 0.2863 hectares, at Richard Taaffes Holding, Green Road, Louth Village. 

The eight dwellings are provided with private amenity space in the form of private gardens, and consists of two types of houses.

The first, type LOU1, comprises two detached, three bed two storey houses. The second, type LOU2, comprises four semi-detached three bed two storey houses; and two detached three bed two storey houses.

Vehicular and pedestrian access to the proposed development will be via the L1170 and the Green Road. The application also provides for items including new vehicular parking, EV charging points, public and communal/play spaces with associated landscaping, new boundary treatments, on street parking area long the L170 and in curtilage parking along the Green Rd, and new footpaths.

Louth County Council sought further information on the development on 17 February. Included in the request was that the applicant demonstrates that they are in ownership of the site or have the necessary permission from the relevant landowner to carry out the development, as a third party has made a submission disputing ownership of the site.

Significant Further Information was provided to Louth County Council on 28 March, with the local authority granting conditional planning permission on 20 April 2