Awaiting decisionChange of use

Station Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois

Conserve and convert the platform 2 station building at Portarlington Station into offices.

21615 · Laois County Council · Lodged 2 September 2021

Reference: 21615
Authority: Laois County Council
Register status: Invalid or incomplete
Type: PERMISSION CONSEQUENT
Received: 2 September 2021

Summary

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The application proposes a programme of conservation works and the re-purposing of the platform 2 station building into office use. Portarlington Station is a protected structure, and the works include reconstructing single-storey accommodation on the eastern side to provide toilets, plant space, and waste management.

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Development description

Develope at this site: a programme of conservation works and re-purposing to office use of the station buidling at platform 2 portarlington station is a 'protected structure' rps 143, niah refno. 12800502 the proposed programme of conservation works would be intended to follow on the current 'phase 1 - programme of roof and rainwater gear conservation led repairs & restoration work & ground levels restoration around the perimeter of the building and platform area' for which a section 57 of the planning & development acts declaration of exempted development has been made by laois county council dated the 1st november 2019. The proposed developments consist of
A programme of conservation works to the existing external and internal structure & fabric of the old station building at platform 2 and immediate outoffices
A re-construction of the single-storey cellular accommodation at the eastern side of the station building - to include some new build interventions - configured to provide toilet accommodation, plant space, waste management space and a small open-air yard for plant and rear access
Re-purposing of the station building, along with the reconstructed and re configured east end accommodation, to office use primarily for iarnród eireann-irish rail personnel
Staff & visitor car parking to include vehicle e-charge bay
Below ground level domestic foul effluent holding chamber & pumping station with rising main (63 mm od mdpe) to convey domestic foul effluent to the east end of platform 2, traversing under the railway lines northwards, then westwards on the far side of the north platform and railway siding discharging to an existing foul effluent manhole in a works area on the north side of the station within the curtilage of the property (which in tum discharges by gravity to the irish water main sewer at station road)
Associated site works and hard & soft landscaping, etc

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How change-of-use applications have been decided in Laois County Council

94% granted

of 233 change-of-use applications granted, refused or part-granted by Laois County Council, 2016–2026.

The same category nationally: 88%14,584
All categories in Laois County Council: 95%5,498

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
9 Station Grove, Portarlington, Laois	Jan 2026	€315,000	170 m
9 Corrig Lodge, Portarlington, County Laois	Apr 2025	€338,500	205 m
24 Station Grove, Portarlington, Laois	Feb 2026	€200,000	229 m
Seskin Portarlington, Portarlington, Laois	Feb 2025	€255,000	300 m
11 Millbrook Manor, Canal Rd, Portarlington	Feb 2026	€420,000	304 m
66 Railway Mews, Portarlington, Laois	Sept 2025	€326,000	329 m
89 Railway Mews, Sheskin Lane, Portarlingtonnot full market price	Feb 2025	€195,000	341 m
69 Railway Mews, Portarlington, Laois	May 2026	€330,000	353 m

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Application received2 September 2021

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