26 Catherine Street
Change of use of ground floor and basement from retail to a cafe/restaurant with shopfront alterations.
16821 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 7 September 2016
- Reference
- 16821
- Authority
- Limerick County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 7 September 2016
Summary
AI-generatedThe application seeks to convert the ground floor and basement of a retail unit into a new cafe/restaurant. Works include a new front terrace with a retractable awning, a new monopitch roof over the rear extension, and replacing upper-floor windows with timber sash windows.
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Official record
Development description
The change of use of ground floor and basement level from existing retail use to new use as café/restaurant including amendments to glazed shop front, new front terrace for external seating including new retractable awning, retention of existing signage, new windows and doors to side elevation, new monopitch clerestorey roofing over existing single storey extension to rear of building, internal alterations to incorporate new finishing kitchen with above-counter grease trap and plate axil fan within kitchen canopy, basement storage area, internal naturally ventilated bin storage area, connection to existing services and replacement of front elevation single glazed aluminium windows on first and second floor with georgian timber vertical sash windows
Built & sold
What happened next
Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 Catherine St, Limerick, Limerick | Nov 2025 | €200,000 | 43 m |
| Unit 1, 15 Upper Cecil St, Limerick | Jul 2025 | €550,000 | 49 m |
| Apt. 1 Woolworths Lane, Off Catherine Street, Limerick | Mar 2025 | €70,000 | 49 m |
| Apt 24 Taits Corner, Baker Place, Limerick | Jul 2026 | €195,000 | 85 m |
| 14 Taits Corner, Glentworth St, Limerick | Jul 2025 | €213,000 | 85 m |
| 22 Taits Corner, Upper Glentworth St, Limerick | Oct 2025 | €210,000 | 85 m |
| Apartment 1, 15a Catherine Street, Limerick | Mar 2025 | €173,000 | 101 m |
| Apartment 1, 3 Cecil St, Limerick | Jul 2025 | €220,000 | 106 m |
Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.
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
- Application received7 September 2016
- Further information requested21 October 2016
- Further information received9 November 2016
- Decision due6 December 2016
- Decision issued2 December 2016
- Grant issued13 January 2017
- Permission expiry12 January 2022
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