Laois school re-applies for planning permission as expiry date approaches

A Laois school has re-applied for planning permission to construct three new extensions and re-organise an existing car park.

Scoil Phadraig Naofa in Mountmellick had previously applied for the development in 2019, and had been granted permission at the time.

The planning permission for the €3.5 million project that was granted in 2019 is not yet expired, but will be by the end of November 2024.

Pictured: Scoil Phadraig Naofa, Mountmellick

The Mountmellick school has applied to Laois County Council to construct a single storey extension to the front/ northeast of the school. 

This extension is planned to contain a 'home school liaison room', one new classroom, one new resource room and administration accommodation.

The second construction will be is a single storey extension to the side/southeast of the school. It will contain two new resource rooms and an accessible WC.

Pictured: The proposed extensions to the school.

The final extension will be to the rear/ southwest of the school, containing two new classrooms.

The proposed works also include the removal of an existing single storey outbuilding to the front/northeast of the school, along with minor alterations to the existing school. The school have applied to re-organise the existing car-parking area to the northeast of the school.

No changes are proposed in this new re-application, and the development is to remain as per the previously granted permission in 2019.

Pictured: the proposed elevation and extension to the northeast of the school.

An Application for an ASD/SEN Extension to the rear of the School was submitted by the school in 2021, and granted in 2022 under planning reference:21/839. This Permission is still valid and does not form part of the application.

The new extension is designed by the same architects who did an extension for the girls' school, Fitzgibbon McGinley.