Plans for 26 apartments at Seatown in Dundalk

Plans are underway for 26 new apartments at Seatown Place in Dundalk, with a planning application lodged with Louth County Council in recent days.

Michael McMahon has applied for planning permission for the development at Rice's Yard, 19 Seatown Place, Dundalk, seeking the go ahead for the construction of 14 one-bed and 12 two-bed apartments.

The site is bounded to the north by Seatown Place and the rear of 20 to 24 Seatown Place, to the south by the Ramparts River, and to the east and west by lands and the rear gardens of properties fronting Seatown Place

The proposed development comprises two new three storey duplex apartment buildings, each containing eight apartments; a new two storey apartment building, containing five apartments; and the conversion of an existing two storey brick building to contain five apartments.

Vehicular and pedestrian access to the site is proposed via the existing established access to Rice’s Yard, between 18 and 20 Seatown Place.

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The planning application provides for the demolition and clearance of all other existing structures on site, removal of modern additions to the existing two storey brick building on site, together with all associated site development works, car parking, landscaping, boundary treatments, public lighting and improvement works to the existing site entrance on Seatown Place.

A decision is due on the application, which is at a pre-validation stage, by 9 June 2026, with submissions due by 19 May.

Louth County Council previously refused planning permission for 39 apartments at this site in 2022, and following an appeal against the decision, An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission in 2024.