Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedCommercialDecided 31 July 2018

Colpe Road, Colpe West, Drogheda Co. Meath

Demolition of a house and construction of a four-storey office building and new link street.

LB180620 · Meath County Council · Lodged 8 June 2018

Reference
LB180620
Authority
Meath County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
PERMISSION
Received
8 June 2018

Summary

AI-generated

The development consists of the demolition of an existing habitable house and the construction of a 4-storey office building of 11,205 sqm. It also includes a new 720m link street with three roundabouts, road realignments, and cycle lanes.

Commercialofficedemolitioninfrastructuresolar
Storeys
4
Floor area
11,205 m²

Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.

Official record

Development description

The proposed development will consist of the demolition of the existing habitable house and construction of 1 no. 4 storey office building consisting of 2 no. Blocks with a shared corner entrance/reception area and a screened plant area, solar panels and equipment at roof level, providing a total gfa of 11,205 sq. M. The proposed road infrastructure includes a link street approximately 720m in length, including 3 no. Roundabout junctions, and it is also proposed to extend a 230m long spur of the link street to the east to facilitate a connection to the existing school on mill road (gaelscoil an bhradain feasa). The road infrastructure also includes the realignment of a section of colpe road and the realignment of the southern section of mill road, and includes proposed cycle lanes/paths access road to the commercial development and associated car park, footpaths, grass verge, public lighting and the provision of a footpath and cyclepath/cycle lane on colpe road to tie-in with the existing shared footpath/cyclepath, to the south-west of the railway line. The associated site and infrastructural works include the demolition of the existing habitable house and associated structures, provision of foul water drainage, surface water drainage including surface water storage facilities above and below ground, watermains and utilities, 280 no. Total car parking spaces, including 6 no. Disabled parking spaces, 93 no. Cycle parking spaces, landscaping consisting of new tree planting, hedges, berms and grass planting, public lighting, bin stores, boundary walls and fences, cyclepaths and footpaths, ebs substation and switchroom, gas skid, pump house, and all associated site and infrastructural works on an application site area of c. 8.07 hectares

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

WL - White LandsR1
White Lands

National zoning type: Strategic reserve, White land

Objective set by the Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (2021–2027). 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 plan

Built & 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
Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
AddressDatePriceDistance
10 Pk Sq, Grangerath Colpe Cross, DroghedaMay 2026€365,000130 m
3 Park Ridge, Grange Rath, DroghedaMay 2025€315,000189 m
49 Park Ridge, Grange Rath, DroghedaApr 2026€280,000203 m
58 Park Ridge, Grange Rath, Dublin Rd DroghedaDec 2025€285,000203 m
Apt 16, Park Ridge, GrangerathNov 2025€250,000203 m
22 Park Ridge, Grange Rath, DroghedaJan 2026€278,000203 m
47 Park Ridge, Grange Rath, DroghedaNov 2025€214,000203 m
4 Park Gate, Grange Rath, Colpe CrossJul 2025€380,000208 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

  1. Application received8 June 2018
  2. Decision due2 August 2018
  3. Decision issued31 July 2018
  4. Grant issued14 September 2018
  5. Permission expiry13 September 2028

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

Sign in to have your say on this application.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Sign in to join the discussion on this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.