East of Kilmurray Student Village north of Troy Studio Lands, National Technology Park Campus, University of Limerick Castletroy Limerick.
Redevelopment of a sports pitch at the University of Limerick to include a rugby pitch, training area, and changing rooms.
2360712 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 28 September 2023
- Reference
- 2360712
- Authority
- Limerick County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 28 September 2023
Summary
AI-generatedThe University of Limerick is proposing to redevelop an existing sports pitch into a full-size grass rugby pitch and a smaller training area. The project includes a changing rooms building, drainage systems, ball catching nets, and the undergrounding of overhead power lines. The site is adjacent to a Special Area of Conservation and partly within an Architectural Conservation Area.
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Official record
Development description
The redevelopment of an existing sports pitch to include 1 no. Full size, grass rugby playing pitch, a smaller ‘training/warm up’ grassed area, an immediately adjacent changing rooms building, an additional surface water drainage system connecting to the existing campus system, a foul sewer connection from the changing rooms building to the adjacent existing campus system, a potable water connection, short lengths of ball catching nets, installation of a replacement esb pylon to facilitate the undergrounding of overhead power lines, ground levels reconfiguration for sports field redevelopment and flood water compensation reasons, low level embankment screen populated with native hedge and woodland planting, bio-filtration, vegetated ponds and associated civil works, on ul campus grounds located in the townland of castletroy, co. Limerick, just to the east of kilmurry student village and immediately north of the troy studio lands on the national technology park campus. The proposed development is located adjacent to a special area of conservation (sac) and part of the lands are contained within an architectural conservation area (aca). A natura impact statement (nis) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To provide for office, research and development, high technology, regional distribution/ logistics, manufacturing and processing type employment in a high quality built and landscaped campus style environment.”
National zoning type: Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses
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.
Read the zoning objectives in the development planKey dates
Timeline
- Application received28 September 2023
- Decision due22 November 2023
- Decision issued22 November 2023
- Grant issued2 January 2024
- Permission expiry1 January 2029
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