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RAILWAY ROAD, SEEFIN BIRR, CO. OFFALY

Construction of a three-storey primary care centre, an ambulance base, and associated access roads.

22377 · Offaly County Council · Lodged 27 July 2022

Reference: 22377
Authority: Offaly County Council
Register status: Invalid or incomplete
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 27 July 2022

Summary

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The development consists of a three-storey primary care centre measuring 4,060 square metres to accommodate HSE facilities, GP surgery space, and a pharmacy. It also includes a two-storey ambulance base with a garage, a single-storey ancillary structure, 157 car parking spaces, and a new 165-metre access distributor road.

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Storeys: 3
Floor area: 4,633 m²

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Official record

Development description

The construction of (1) a 4060m2 three storey primary care centre to accommodate (a) hse facilities comprising consulting rooms, treatment areas, meeting rooms, offices and support spaces (b) surgery space totalling 807m2 for general practitioners (c) a 138m2 pharmacy with two consulting rooms totaling 34m2; (2) a 175m2 single storey ancillary structure at the rear of primary care centre for stores, waste, back-up generator and associated external plant; (3) a 397.5m2 two storey ambulance base with single storey garage and external canopy; (4) 157 no. Car-parking area including provision for 6 no. Motorcycle parking spaces, 50 no. Bicycle spaces, 16 no. Electrical charge points and traffic control barriers for employee parking; (5) section of new access distributor road 165m long with footways; (6) all associated site development works to serve the proposal including site and distributor road lighting, hard and soft landscaping, rail and fence boundary treatment and all associated signage

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Community Services/FacilitiesCI

“The purpose of this zoning is to protect, provide and allow expansion of a wide range of different community facilities, civic facilities and social services, from educational, childcare and health facilities to places of worship and community centres.”

National zoning type: Mixed/general community services/facilities uses

Objective set by the Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029 (2023–2029). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
10 Hillside, Birr, Offaly	Oct 2025	€395,000	144 m
26 Macregol Court, Birr, Offaly	Jun 2025	€180,000	192 m
20 Macregol Court, Birr, Offaly	Jan 2025	€205,000	201 m
7 Drumbane, Birr, Offaly	Jun 2025	€136,000	248 m
44 Macregol Pairc, Birrnot full market price · price excludes VAT	Jun 2025	€250,131	276 m
46 Macregol Pairc, Birrnot full market price · price excludes VAT	Jul 2025	€250,131	276 m
47 Macregol Pairc, Birrnot full market price · price excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€229,844	297 m
45 Macregol Pairc, Birrnot full market price · price excludes VAT	Jul 2025	€250,131	297 m

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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.

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Application received27 July 2022

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