Another addition planned to new Portlaoise motor service station

Another addition is sought by a major Laois motor service station which is under construction and nearly complete.

Downey's service station forecourt and shop on the Dublin road, Portlaoise is moving two sites closer to the town, with works well underway, as their photographs show.

Construction includes a two storey petrol filing station and licenced forecourt convenience store with a retail shop, delicatessen, toilets, stores, ATM, seating area with full off-licence to ground floor.  The first floor will have staff facilities with a canteen, offices spaces, plant space and external plant.

The new Downey's service station shop under construction in November 2025. 

There will be a forecourt with canopy, pump islands, signage, illuminated roadside totem signage, services area, Carwash, underground fuel storage tanks. It will have 48 parking spaces including five for EV charging, three disability spaces and six bicycle spaces. It will have a fuel offloading point, a new site entrance, new boundary treatments and landscaping.

The family owned business has this January lodged a planning application Laois County Council to add a Deposit Return facility.

Image by Insight Architects, Portlaoise of the new Downey's service station in Portlaoise. 

It will be in its own single storey building, with variations sought to the site boundaries and boundary treatments and the new carparking layout and rear yard arrangement and all associated site works.

The application was lodged on January 14 by Portlaoise Service Station LTD, with a decision due in early March 2026.

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The former Leinster Express offices were demolished to make way for the new service station. See video here.

The project must also rebuild a new bigger roundabout at the busy junction to Colliers Lane which Laois County Council says will be completed this year.