Plans lodged for 14 apartments at former landmark north Louth pub

Plans are underway to redevelop the former Windmill Bar & Restaurant at Seatown Place in Dundalk, into a residential development of 14 apartments, with a planning application lodged with Louth County Council.

Flood Francis Developments Limited has applied for planning permission for change of use of the site to residential use and alterations to the current structure to provide three two-bed apartments and 11 one-bed apartments.

The proposed development includes the retention and conservation of the historic elements of the facade of the Windmill Bar.

The planning application also provides for items including landscaped communal open space, secure bicycle storage, bin storage, boundary treatments and all associated site strip and excavation works above and below ground. The application also indicates that a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is required for the proposed development and has been prepared by the applicant.

A decision is due on the application, which is at a pre-validation stage, by 24 July, with submissions due by 3 July.

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The former Windmill Bar was once home to the Watters family, whose sons Patrick and John were murdered in the War of Independence.

It is understood the two young men were taken from their home at around 2am on 18 June 1921 by members of the locally based Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and shot dead just yards from their home.