Abbeyleix shop planned to be knocked for new apartments and houses

A planning application for a new housing development in Abbeyleix is about to be lodged with Laois County Council.

The plan includes the demolition of a shop and the construction of 28 new apartments and houses.

Applicant Cubic Housing Ltd. intends to apply for permission to demolish a furniture shop called Dunnes Hardware, on New Row in Abbeyleix, the Tidy Towns 2023 champion.

It seeks permission to build a range of homes in its stead. There would be three 2-storey four bedroom terraced houses, four more attached homes with three bedrooms each, three dormer style three bedroom terraced homes, ten two bedroom bungalows, and finally a two storey duplex block containing eight one bedroom apartments.

The application will also seek to install a communal bin and bicycle store, a new vehicular entrance from New Row, parking spaces, boundary treatments, a landscaped amenity space, a local road and footpaths.

The company Cubic Housing is building two housing developments elsewhere in Laois, 49 in Mountmellick and 20 in Mountrath. Both developments are to be sold to Laois County Council as completed turnkey homes for tenants.