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BIRR ROAD, CLOGHAN, CO. OFFALY

Expansion of community facilities in Cloghan to include a new football pitch, walking track, floodlights, and landscaping.

24151 · Offaly County Council · Lodged 14 October 2024

Reference: 24151
Authority: Offaly County Council
Register status: Invalid or incomplete
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 14 October 2024

Summary

AI-generated

The project involves extending the existing facility boundaries with new fencing, hedging, and walls. It will add a 1.2m wide walking track extension, seating, bicycle parking, a wildflower area, a new football pitch with ball stop nets, and LED floodlighting.

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Official record

Development description

Extending the existing facilities site boundaries to include a powder coated fence to the eastern boundary to match existing and native hedgerow to the southern boundary and 1m high rendered block wall to the western boundary to match existing wall, to extend 1.2m wide walking track around same to match the existing walking track, install seating and bicycle parking, a wild flower area, a new football pitch with ball stop nets, led flood lighting and all associated site works

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Enterprise and EmploymentCOE

“This zoning promotes the development of employment uses that reinforce the enterprise and employment function of the subject area as a whole and require high environmental and design standards.”

National zoning type: Office, business/technology park and related

Objective set by the Offaly 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.

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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
13 Breachach, Cloghanprice excludes VAT	Jan 2026	€277,533	139 m
11 Breachach, Cloghanprice excludes VAT	May 2025	€264,273	151 m
12 Breachach, Cloghanprice excludes VAT	May 2025	€264,273	153 m
6 Breachnagh, Birr Rd, Cloghan	May 2025	€270,000	164 m
22 Clauin Na Spiddeoga, Cloghan, Offaly	Feb 2026	€200,000	279 m
First Floor Apartment, Main Street, Cloghan	Aug 2025	€95,000	403 m
Castle St, Cloghan, Co Offaly	Aug 2025	€175,000	405 m
Castle Street, Cloghan, Birr	Jun 2026	€395,000	466 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 received14 October 2024

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