GrantedApartmentsDecided 1 February 2023

St. Patrick's Direct Provision Centre, Drumgoask, Monaghan

Construction of 29 modular residential units for asylum seekers at St. Patrick's Direct Provision Centre in Monaghan.

22350 · Monaghan County Council · Lodged 4 August 2022

Reference: 22350
Authority: Monaghan County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 4 August 2022
Residential units: 1
Floor area: 1168.7 m²

Summary

AI-generated

The development consists of three detached single-storey buildings providing 29 modular residential units to accommodate asylum seekers. The project includes three new pump houses, a reinforced concrete retaining wall, communal open spaces, and recreational areas.

Apartmentsmodularasylum seekerresidential

Storey: 1

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

Permission consisting of the erection of 3 detached buildings, providing an aggregate floorspace of 1,168.7 sq. Metres in two single-storey terraces of ten modular residential units and one single-storey terrace of nine modular residential units, resulting in a total of twenty-nine units of 40.3q. Metres each, within this overall development. Each of these units, all of which are to be used to accommodate asylum seekers, would contain two bedrooms and a kitchen / family room, as well as bathroom and hallway accommodation. The development would utilise and existing vehicular access t the site, an existing water supply and an existing wastewater pipeline (which was permitted by the council under permission reg. 20281), although the application also includes the installation of three new pump houses. The proposed development includes the removal of existing loose stones from the site, the levelling of the land, the erection of a reinforced concrete retaining wall, the provision of communal open spaces, as well as a separate area for recreational purposes and all ancillary site works.

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
Address	Date	Price	Distance
Milltown, Monaghan	Aug 2025	€270,000	365 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 received4 August 2022
Further information requested27 September 2022
Further information received11 January 2023
Decision due7 February 2023
Decision issued1 February 2023
Grant issued8 March 2023
Permission expiry7 March 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.

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