GrantedCommercialDecided 3 July 2024

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Boyle O’Reilly Terrace/Windmill Road/The Twenties, Moneymore Drogheda, Co. Louth

Construction of a new 36-bed hospice building at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital campus in Drogheda.

2460138 · Louth County Council · Lodged 15 March 2024

Reference: 2460138
Authority: Louth County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 15 March 2024

Summary

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The project involves the redevelopment of lands east of the hospital to construct a new part 3 and 4-storey hospice building over a 1-2 level basement. The facility will provide regional palliative care services with 36 in-patient bedrooms, day treatment rooms, and family accommodation, incorporating and partly demolishing existing campus structures.

Commercialhospicehealthcaredemolition

Storeys: 4

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Official record

Development description

Permission for redevelopment of lands located directly east of our lady of lourdes hospital, and including lands within the medical missionaries of mary (mmm) campus, at beechgrove/boyle o’reilly terrace/windmill road, parking also at a site (proposed for car parking) at the twenties, moneymore, drogheda. The site is located north of our lady of lourdes church (rc), which is a protected structure (rps ref. Db-099). The development will consist of the construction of a new hospice development providing regional palliative care services in a part 3 and 4 storey building (over 1-2 level basement). A number of the existing mmm building structures on site will be incorporated and partly demolished/altered within the new building development including the existing 4-storey tower building and auditorium building. The proposed hospice will contain 36 no. In-patient bedrooms, day hospital treatment rooms, administration/research services, associated utility and clinical rooms, accommodation for families of patients, oratory, restaurant, kitchen, meeting rooms, winter gardens, terraces and loggia, coffee docks, staff and changing rooms, remains viewing room and all associated ancillary areas. The basement will be accessed via a vehicular ramp and new vehicular access from the beechgrove/boyle o’reilly terrace/windmill road, and will include 37 no. Car parking spaces and 42 no. Bicycle spaces. The development will also include refuse store, plant, sprinkler tank, m&e services, part blue roof and all associated plant and servicing areas (including the relocation of an existing esb substation to a new free standing building and incorporating additional storage). The development includes an internal link to the existing hospital at ground floor level. The development includes for the provision of a landscaped courtyard, and associated landscaped areas, upgraded public footpath and lighting, laybys for deliveries/waste collection and set down area, boundary treatments and all associated site works and services provision (including drainage upgrade works along windmill road and ballymakenny road). The development will include the provision of an additional overflow car parking area of
No. Spaces provided at cross lane, moneymore with new access via the twenties. This amounts to a combined total of 87no. Car parking spaces

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Existing ResidentialRS

“To protect and enhance the amenity and character of existing residential communities.”

National zoning type: Existing residential

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
52 Boyle Oreilly Terrace, Drogheda, Louth	Feb 2025	€220,000	43 m
19 Boyle O Reilly Terrace, Drogheda, Louth	Jan 2025	€245,000	69 m
16 Beechgrove Terrace, Drogheda, Louth	Sept 2025	€254,000	200 m
14 Broadmeadows, Ballymakenny Rd, Drogheda	Mar 2025	€375,000	239 m
48 Brookville Park, Drogheda, Louth	Mar 2025	€341,000	250 m
Apt 1 - Windmill Court, Windmill Road, Drogheda	Dec 2025	€200,000	287 m
4 Windmill Court, Windmill Rd, Drogheda	Dec 2025	€175,000	287 m
61 Brookville, Drogheda, Louth	Jan 2026	€300,000	291 m

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Key dates

Timeline

Application received15 March 2024
Further information requested2 May 2024
Further information received17 June 2024
Decision due14 July 2024
Decision issued3 July 2024
Grant issued5 August 2024
Permission expiry4 August 2029

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