GrantedHousing estateDecided 13 July 2021

Dromdarrig, Mungret, Co. Limerick

Construction of 253 residential units, a creche, community facility, and retail units in Mungret.

218000 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 3 February 2021

Reference: 218000
Authority: Limerick County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 3 February 2021
Residential units: 191
Floor area: 20569.3 m²

Summary

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A major development on 7.2 hectares of zoned land consisting of 174 houses (including two community dwellings) and 79 apartments. The scheme features affordable housing, independent living units for older persons, a 70-child creche, a community facility with a cafe, and two local retail units.

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Official record

Development description

Development on circa 7.2 hectares of land zoned for development purposes within the southern environs local area plan 2011
2017 (as extended). The proposed development seeks the construction of 253 no. Residential units including 36 no. Two bed houses; 110 no. Three bed houses; 26 no. Four bed houses; 2 no. Six bed community dwellings; 37 no. Two bed apartment units; and 42 no. One bed apartment units, with renewable energy design measures (which may be provided externally) for each housing unit. The residential units are structured such that (a) 146 no. Houses and apartments are intended for private sale/rental; (b) 50 no. Houses and apartments are affordable units intended for private sale/rental; (c) 2 no. Detached units are intended as community dwellings; and (d) 55 no. Apartments are intended as independent living for older persons of which 25 no. Apartments intended as social – rental units, a crèche facility with capacity to accommodate 70 no. Children, a community facility with ancillary café of 35 sqm net floor area, 2 no. Local retail and retail service units, of 80 sqm net floor area situated fronting the public square and positioned within the independent living for older persons complex, public toilet, landscaping works including provision of playground/kick about areas, new pedestrian and cycle connections and public square, associated site and infrastructural works including provision for water services, foul and surface water drainage and associated connections and attenuation proposals including permeable paving and swales, 2 no. Esb substations, external plant and services, car/bicycle parking and all associated site development works. The development will be accessed from the proposed mungret link road with 5 no units only, accessed from the existing mungret woods housing development. Part of the site is currently being used as a temporary school and that part of the development (crèche, community centre and 12 no. Apartments) shall not progress until such time as the school vacates those lands and removes the portacabins in accordance with the terms of their permission (17/357). The development also necessitates demolition of an agricultural building. Part of the development proposal is located within the curtilage of a protected structure mungret college stables and outbuildings (rps no. 1658, 1660 & 1661) whilst repair works are proposed to the observatory (seismic station) (rps no. 1658) located within proposed open space

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

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“To provide for new residential development in tandem with the provision of social and physical infrastructure.”

National zoning type: New/proposed residential

Objective set by the Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028 (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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Built & sold

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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
39 Mungret Woods, Baunacloka, Mungret	Aug 2025	€380,000	156 m
6 Bishops Quarter, Mungret Gate, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€392,070	222 m
4 Bishops Quarter, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€392,070	222 m
44 Bishops Quarter, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€405,286	222 m
No. 3 Bishops Quarter, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€392,070	222 m
39 Bishops Quarter, Baunacloka, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€405,286	222 m
10 Bishops Quarter, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€374,405	222 m
8 Bishops Quarter, Mungret Gate, Mungretprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€374,405	222 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

Application received3 February 2021
Decision due30 March 2021
Decision issued13 July 2021

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