Green light for long awaited Primary Care Centre in Offaly

Offaly County Council has given the green light for a long awaited Primary Care Centre in Offaly.

BPI Investments Ltd has been given the green light for the three storey Primary Care Centre at Railway Road, Townparks, Birr. 

The centre will include a number of HSE facilities including consulting rooms, treatment areas, meeting rooms, offices and support spaces.

It will also include a surgery space totalling 807 square metres for General Practitioners and a 138 square metre pharmacy, and two consulting rooms totalling 34 square metres.

There will also be a two storey ambulance base and parking for 157 cars. There will be fifty spaces for bicycles and 16 electrical charging points.

A new access distributor road with footpaths, 165 metres in length, will be constructed.

The Council sought clarification from the developer and received this clarification on February 13 last and has now granted permission with 15 conditions attached. Details of the conditions are not yet available.