Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedInfrastructureDecided 16 July 2025

Portlaoise GAA, Rathleague Portlaoise, Co. Laois

Demolition of existing clubhouse and construction of a major new GAA facility.

2560304 · Laois County Council · Lodged 20 May 2025

Reference
2560304
Authority
Laois County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
PERMISSION
Received
20 May 2025
Residential units
1
Floor area
10122 m²

Summary

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The project involves demolishing the existing clubhouse and constructing a new 10,122 sqm facility including an indoor training field, grandstand, and café. It also includes pitch realignments, a new synthetic pitch, floodlighting, and a relocated car park.

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Official record

Development description

  • Carry out the following development
  • Demolition of existing structures on site to include existing clubhouse and associated outbuildings (c. 1,567 sqm overall)
  • Construction of a new clubhouse, grandstand, and indoor training facility measuring c. 10,122 sqm gfa to include: an indoor training field (c. 6,175 sqm), changing rooms, communal areas, café/merchandise shop, town hall, gym, physio room, comms room, a function room and associated kitchen, bar, 2 no. Meeting rooms, 4 no. Outdoor handball courts, plant rooms, esb substation, and ancillary storage rooms
  • Amendments to the layouts of existing 5 no. Natural grass outdoor training pitches, including spectator fencing and 400 lux floodlighting to 1 no. Natural grass pitch, realignment of ball stop netting, and associated works
  • Conversion of existing grass pitch to 1 no. All weather synthetic pitch, with the inclusion of new floodlights (400 lux), spectator fencing, ball stop netting and associated works
  • Provision of 4 no. Dug outs and 2 no. Scoreboards
  • 1 no. Spectator seating terrace measuring 11.16m in height with seating capacity for c. 420 no. Spectators
  • Relocation of the existing car park to provide 227 no. Car parking spaces (to incl. 13 no. Accessible spaces and 23 no. Ev spaces), bus set down area and 4 no. Bus sparking spaces, with additional overflow parking available
  • Works to the r425 road to provide traffic calming measures in the form of concrete buildouts, islands, a pedestrian crossing, and associated line marking and signage
  • The re-design of the existing vehicular entrance along the r425 road to provide pedestrian/cycle access
  • Provision of a new emergency vehicle entrance only onto the r425
  • Provision of 227 no. Cycle parking spaces
  • Provision of static storage for firefighting
  • Amendments to and the extension of the existing amenity track and lighting
  • All associated boundary treatments including the retention of existing hedgerow along all boundaries
  • All associated site development works and services, including foul water pumping station and rising main, irrigation well with pump, and all associated hard and soft landscaping including mounding, footpaths, pitch fencing, planting and landscaping works

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Community Educational and InstitutionalCI
“To protect and provide for local neighbourhood, community, ecclesiastical, recreational and educational facilities.”

National zoning type: Mixed/general community services/facilities uses

Objective set by the LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m
Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
AddressDatePriceDistance
13 St Fergal'S Park, Ballacolla, Co. Laoisnot full market priceJun 2026€102,000261 m
Meadow View Cottage, Durrow Road, BallacollaDec 2025€220,000397 m
Coole, Ballacolla, County LaoisDec 2025€200,000440 m

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Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.

Key dates

Timeline

  1. Application received20 May 2025
  2. Decision due16 July 2025
  3. Decision issued16 July 2025
  4. Grant issued19 August 2025
  5. Permission expiry18 August 2032

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