GrantedApartmentsDecided 1 August 2023

Towlerton, Ballysimon, Limerick

A major development in Ballysimon featuring a discount foodstore, a café, commercial units, offices, and 38 apartments.

22950 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 31 August 2022

Reference: 22950
Authority: Limerick County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 31 August 2022

Summary

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The proposed development consists of four buildings. It includes a single-storey discount foodstore with solar panels, a single-storey café, a three-storey commercial and office building, and a six-storey building containing ground-floor commercial units and 38 apartments on the upper floors.

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Residential units: 38
Storeys: 6
Floor area: 8,671 m²

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Official record

Development description

A development that will consist of/consists of: building a: the provision of a single storey discount foodstore including off license use with gross floor area of 2,205 sq. M as well as roof mounted plant and solar panels. (net retail area: 1,408 sq. M). Building b: a single-storey café building with external seating area (gross floor area
150 sq. M). Building c: a 3 no. Storey building comprising 6 no. Commercial units at ground floor area to accommodate shop use (class
Or office/professional/financial services use (class
Or office use (class
Or medical use (class
(gross floor area 625 sq. M). First and second floors consist of office floorspace including circulation space with entrance at ground floor (gross floor area 1,545 sq. M). Building d: a 6 no. Storey building comprising 4 no. Commercial units at ground floor to accommodate shop use (class
Or office/professional/financial services use (class
Or office use (class
Or medical use (class
(gross floor area of 786 sq. M). The upper five floors comprise 38 no. Apartments, with entrance at ground floor, (gross floor area of 3,900 sq. M), as follows: (a) 10 no 1-bedroom apartments, (b) 26 no 2-bedroom apartments, (c) 2 no 3-bedroom apartments. Provision of signage for buildings a, b, c & d (130.9 sq. M). Provision of pedestrian and vehicular access, 172 no. Car parking spaces including 6 no. Disabled bays, 6 no. Family bays, 142 no. Cycle spaces, public realm area with street furniture, residents' communal open space, site landscaping, public lighting, boundary treatments, eb substation (24 sq. M), external bin storage areas (56.5 sq. M) and all other site development works and services ancillary to the proposed development

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Mixed UseRE

“To provide for a mixture of residential and compatible commercial uses.”

National zoning type: Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site

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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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
Apt 325 Brookfield Hall, Castletroy, Limerick	Apr 2025	€202,000	461 m
181 Caislean Na Habhainn, Castletroy, Limerick	Jun 2025	€440,000	491 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 received31 August 2022
Further information requested21 October 2022
Further information received7 June 2023
Decision due1 August 2023
Decision issued1 August 2023
Grant issued5 September 2023
Permission expiry4 September 2028

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