Plans to construct housing development have been submitted to Carlow County Council

Stormbell Limited submitted a planning application to Carlow County Council with modifications to previously submitted planning permission (Ref. no. 18/466, ABP-306276-19), submitted by Eurkon (Dublin) Ltd. 

The previous application detailed the construction of fifty dwelling units comprising of, nineteen two-storey terraced two-bedroom (Type A), twenty-seven two-storey terraced three-bedroom (Type B), two two-storey semi-detached three-bedroom (Type B) and two two-storey semi-detached four bedroom (Type C) dwellings together with all associated ancillary site works, including roads, parking, footpaths, landscaping, boundary treatment and services to facilitate the development, with vehicular and pedestrian access from the Carlow Road (R725) via the existing access road located to the west of the subject site, all on a site of circa 1.78ha located at Tullowbeg, Tullow, Co. Carlow.

This planning application was refused in 2019.

The proposed modifications put forward in the new planning application, submitted on 25th January 2024, consists of the following:

Change of as-granted boundary treatment along the southern side of the site from a 1.8m high concrete block wall with 2m high concrete piers with plastered finish on both faces of the wall to a 1.8m high precast concrete wall with 2m high precast concrete piers with stone patterned finish on both faces of the wall.

Change of as-granted boundary treatment between the proposed forty-eight dwelling units from 1.8m high concrete posts with concrete panels to 1.8m high concrete posts with timber panels.

All with associated site works.

The application is still at pre-validation stage, meaning no expected date for a decision is available yet.