Plans lodged to build 49 homes beside Laois supermarket
A planning application has been lodged in Laois to build new apartments and houses in Portlaoise.
Applicant John Fingleton is seeking permission for 49 homes, on a site next to Dunnes Stores on Green Mill Lane.
The planning application to Laois County Council was lodged on November 18, and a decision is due by January 21 2023.
Of the 49 residential units planned, there will be 15 terraced, two-storey houses, with one of them having four bedrooms and the other 14 with three bedrooms.
Most of the build will result in apartments.
The application lists 34 two-bed apartments. arranged in four 2-storey blocks.
One block will have 12, two will have 8 apartments each and a fourth will have six.
The proposed access will be through the existing entrance (serving Mill Court) off Green Mill Lane.
The busy road, linking the Mountmellick N80 road and Ridge Road, is in line for road safety improvements including a partial truck ban and pedestrian crossings, following a safety survey carried out by Laois County Council.
The planned works will include new estate roads, parking courts, boundaries, landscaping, a play area, related and ancillary services including bin storage and cycle shelters along with the demolition/removal of the existing boundary wall fronting Green Mill Lane and all associated site-works at Green Mill Lane, Portlaoise.
The plans can be viewed on Laois County Council's website.