First look at Limerick post office apartment proposal

LIMERICK Live can reveal how a new apartment development at a former city centre post office may appear if it gets planning permission.

As reported by this newspaper, developers are planning to construct eight new homes on the site of the former post office at Clontarf Place.

Henry Street Developments is seeking permission from council planners to demolish numbers 11 and 12 Clontarf Place, where the area’s post office was located up to 2005.

Since then, the building -located off O’Connell Avenue - has lain largely idle.

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Railings were erected around the site last summer as the developer sought the go-ahead from council to demolish the two buildings, and a number of other derelict units behind in Wellesley Lane - but nothing else initially.

Council refused Henry Street Developments permission saying the need to fully demolish the site structures “has not been fully justified.”

Now, as well as demolishing the two buildings in Clontarf Place, and the four in Wellesley Lane, the developer has outlined plans to also construct eight apartments in their place.