St. Joseph's Hospital Campus, Mulgrave Street, Limerick
Construction of a new four-storey Primary Care Centre at St. Joseph's Hospital Campus.
2560205 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 13 March 2025
- Reference
- 2560205
- Authority
- Limerick County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 13 March 2025
Summary
AI-generatedA new four-storey Primary Care Centre (7,370 sqm) is proposed, featuring GP services, clinics, dental surgeries, and a retail café. The development includes 110 parking spaces, road widening, and is located within the curtilage of a Protected Structure.
- Storeys
- 4
- Floor area
- 7,370 m²
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Official record
Development description
A new four storey (7,370 m²) primary care centre (pcc) building to include entrance foyer, waiting areas, gp service, breastcheck clinic, community care services, clinical diagnostics, dental, orthodontic & restorative surgeries, chronic disease management, consulting rooms, retail café and all associated administration and ancillary spaces, roof mounted plant area and photovoltaic panels. Widening of the existing vehicular and pedestrian entrance along mulgrave street and localised widening of existing campus road along with provision of new access road to serve the development site, 110 no. Parking spaces, including 7 no. Accessible parking bays and 110 no. Bicycle parking spaces. New drainage connections (including new foul pumping station), attenuation and associated site services. Landscaping, boundary treatments, external lighting, and all related site development works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of the st. Joseph’s hospital a protected structure (rps 3363)
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To protect, consolidate and facilitate the development of the City Centre commercial, retail, educational, leisure, residential, social and community uses and facilities.”
National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area
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 planBuilt & 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38a Mulgrave Street, Limerick | Aug 2025 | €90,000 | 75 m |
| 8 St Dympnas Terrace, Mulgrave Street, Limerick | Oct 2025 | €290,000 | 93 m |
| 5 St Laurences Park, Garryowen, Limerick | Apr 2026 | €230,000 | 127 m |
| 1 Greenhills Rd, Garryowen, Limerick | May 2025 | €130,000 | 156 m |
| 57 St Laurence's Park, Limerick | Jun 2025 | €160,000 | 156 m |
| 57 St Laurence's Park, Limerick | Feb 2026 | €300,000 | 156 m |
| 58 St Laurence's Park, Garryowen, Limerick | Feb 2025 | €250,000 | 158 m |
| 15 Pike Ave, Garryowen, Limerick | Mar 2026 | €50,000 | 175 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 received13 March 2025
- Further information requested6 May 2025
- Further information received28 October 2025
- Decision due24 November 2025
- Decision issued24 November 2025
- Appeal submitted17 December 2025
- Appeal decided9 April 2026
- Permission expiry8 April 2031
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