New residential and services development planned for Main Street in Blackrock

Plans are underway for a new mixed-use development in Blackrock, which would if given the go ahead include new houses and apartments, as well as health and medical services, with a planning application lodged in recent days with Louth County Council.

GEC Development and Construction Ltd has applied for planning permission for the development at Main Street/Beech Park, Blackrock, Co Louth, seeking the go ahead for a mixed use development which would include a material alteration, extension and change of use of an existing two storey retail and residential building facing onto Main Street.

The applicant is seeking a change of use of the building to an office and services use, including health and medical services, as well as the development of a number of new homes.

The residential element of the development comprises a two bedroom apartment at ground floor level; a two bedroomed apartment at first floor level; as well as the construction of four semi-detached, age friendly, single storey, and two bedroom houses; two semi-detached, age friendly, single storey, three bedroomed dwelling houses.

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The applicant is also seeking to develop a new temporary waste water treatment plant which would be connected to the mains wastewater network, and all ancillary and associated site development works including new vehicular entrance off the public road from Beech Park.

The application also provides for site clearance works, car parking spaces, new communal open space area, bin storage, hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works.

A decision is due on the application, which is at a pre-validation stage, by 15 April, with submissions due by 25 March.