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National Enterprise Park, Knockmay Portlaoise, Co Laois

Construction of a new office building and a workshop building at National Enterprise Park in Portlaoise.

2660368 · Laois County Council · Lodged 12 June 2026

Reference
2660368
Authority
Laois County Council
Register status
Invalid or incomplete
Type
PERMISSION
Received
12 June 2026

Summary

AI-generated

The development consists of a 2,178 sqm office building featuring a showroom and auction arena, alongside a 3,389 sqm workshop building with a spray booth and loading docks. The project also includes machinery storage yards, car parking, and associated site works on a 7.662-hectare site.

Commercialofficeworkshopindustrial
Floor area
5,567 m²

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Development description

Develop (i) an office building containing office accommodation, staff welfare facilities, a showroom and auction arena with a proposed gross floor area of 2178 sqm; and (ii) a workshop building containing a spray booth, loading docks, office accommodation and staff welfare facilities with a proposed gross floor area of 3389 sqm. The development will also comprise associated vehicular entrances, machinery storage yards, loading bays, vehicle wash bay, car parking areas, street lighting, bicycle shelter facilities, signage, site services, landscaping works, including perimeter fencing, walls and piers, stormwater management system incorporating attenuation tanks, nature based suds solutions, flow-control chamber, petrol interceptor, and outfall connection and all ancillary and associated site development works at national enterprise park, knockmay, portlaoise, co. Laois. The site area is 7.662ha.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Enterprise and EmploymentSI
“To provide lands for enterprise and employment use, more specifically low input and emission manufacturing, campus-style offices, storage uses, wholesaling and distribution, commercial services with high space and parking requirements.”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

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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  1. Application received12 June 2026

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