Plans to reduce size of proposed Castletown Road development in Dundalk

A decision is due at the end of this month on a planning application for a housing development at the Castletown Road in Dundalk, that had initially proposed to construct 16 new housing units, but has since been changed to reduce the number of planned units to 12.

Mr Eugene Devlin made an application in June 2022, seeking planning permission from the local authority for the construction of 16 new apartments across two three-storey apartment blocks and one two-storey apartment block at the Castletown Road in Dundalk.

A decision had been due from Louth County Council by 28 July 2022 but the application was placed on hold by the local authority pending receipt of further information in relation to the development.

Significant Further Information was provided to Louth County Council on 3 May. Included in the information, was details that sees the proposed number of apartments reduced to 12. 

The proposed development now comprises a three storey apartment block consisting of four, two-bedroom ground floor apartments and four, three-bedroom duplex apartments; as well as a separate two storey apartment block consisting of two, two-bedroom ground floor apartments with two, two-bedroom first floor apartment above.

The planning application also provides for 12 car parking spaces, bin storage, and "public and communal open space which are to service the proposed developments with private amenity spaces to service individual apartments".

A decision is now due on the application by 30 May 2023.