Observation Compound at Whitestown incorporating Ballagan Point Look Out Post 01 (WWII) and a 19th century Coastguard Signal Station., Whitestown, Greenore
Restoration and conservation of a historic observation compound in Whitestown.
2560040 · Louth County Council · Lodged 29 January 2025
- Reference
- 2560040
- Authority
- Louth County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 29 January 2025
Summary
AI-generatedThe project involves the restoration, repair, and conservation of the former Observation Compound incorporating Ballagan Point Look Out Post and a 19th-century Coastguard Signal Station. It will reestablish the compound as an observatory with a residential component.
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Official record
Development description
- Planning permission for the proposed restoration, repair, and conservation of the former observation compound at whitestown incorporating ballagan point look out post 01(wwii) and a 19th century coastguard signal station. Permission to include for; the reestablishment of use of the compound as an observatory, together with a residential component on site. The existing coastguard signal station building included bedroom, living, cooking, toilet (external), and storage (external) accommodation. The development will consist of; appropriate and sensitive adjustments to the coastguard signal station building contained within the compound to include the conservation, and if necessary, restoration of floors, roofs, parapets, cornices, walls, windows, shutters, doors, and adjacent groundworks
- Repairs to perimeter walls (currently damaged)
- The provision of an appropriate contemporary wastewater treatment system
- Adjustment of the existing external toilet & store so as to be incorporated within the revised plan layout of the coastguard signal station building
- The provision of appropriate levels of insulation
- The provision of a new raised, removable viewing platform together with the creation of one glazed doorway opening replacing two existing windows of the eastern façade. The application site contains and is the stand of a protected structure which is a wwii look out post (rps ref no. Lhs009-055). Application site also includes recorded monument lh009-010
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What happened next
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Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitestown, Greenore, Co. Louth | Jan 2026 | €650,000 | 249 m |
| Whitestown Shore, Greenore, Louth | Aug 2025 | €226,500 | 382 m |
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Key dates
Timeline
- Application received29 January 2025
- Decision due25 March 2025
- Decision issued14 March 2025
- Appeal submitted8 April 2025
- Appeal decided23 July 2025
- Permission expiry22 July 2030
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