Tipperary housing development put on hold following appointment of provisional liquidators

The site of a 122-unit housing development in Clonmel is one of those affected by the appointment of provisional liquidators to thirteen construction companies in the High Court this week.

Work on the Coleville Road site in Clonmel had come to a halt some weeks ago, and now a provisional liquidator has been appointed to the developers of the site, Torca Developments Limited.
Responding to the development, the Mayor of Clonmel, Cllr Pat English, described it as a blow for the town and the people who had signed up to buy the houses.

“The hope is now that people’s deposits are secured and that somebody will come in and take over the site. It is in a lovely area, and the demand for houses in Clonmel is huge,” he said.

The court was told that twenty individual companies in the Torca Homes group were insolvent.

Thirteen of them applied to the High Court for the appointment of provisional liquidators, and it is proposed that the other seven will go into voluntary liquidation.

The Coleville Road project was one of the largest proposed housing developments in Clonmel in recent years.

The site is located on the southern bank of the River Suir, within minutes of Clonmel town center, and the original planning permission was for a scheme that consisted of 115 residential units made up of 68 houses, 24 duplexes and 23 apartments.

An application to amend that was made by the developers and An Bord Pleanala gave permission for 122 residential units, a childcare facility and associated works at the end of 2024.

This decision allowed the developers to proceed with an increase in the number of residential units in the overall scheme by seven from 115 units (permitted 68 houses and 47 duplexes ) to 122 units (proposed 76 houses and 46 apartments).
The decision also allowed for a revision of the house types in the development.

It also approved a revision in the design and layout of the childcare facility (decrease in floorspace from c.208sqm to c.160sqm, maintenance of capacity for up to 33 children) and a revision of the car and cycle parking provision (increase from permitted 181 car spaces and 366 cycle spaces, to proposed 205 car spaces and 389 cycle spaces).

The scheme, with a childcare facility, bike parks, soft play areas, communal gathering spaces as well as quiet seating areas, was designed to support a diverse and sustainable community of families and individuals.

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