{"id":113908,"date":"2025-10-31T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113908\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:20:07","slug":"an-coimisiun-pleanala-overturn-permission-for-97-home-plan-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113908\/","title":{"rendered":"An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la overturn permission for 97-home plan in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PERMISSION for almost 100 homes in Raheen has been refused by An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/231\/planning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Coimisi\u00fan<\/a> Plean\u00e1la.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick City and County Council afforded Rockspring Developments the go-ahead to construct 97 homes at Baunacloka in Raheen.<\/p>\n<p>However, four people wrote to the national planning appeals body in the hope of getting the decision overturned.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/home\/1930656\/breaking-shock-in-limerick-as-high-profile-labour-politician-quits-the-party.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shock in Limerick as high profile Labour politician quits party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In that number was The Grange Residents Association, which raised concerns about the potential for anti-social behaviour from the new development.<\/p>\n<p>They also expressed fear over the danger of increased traffic to the site due to the construction of a pedestrian and cycle link between their estate and this development.<\/p>\n<p>Another person objecting suggested the proposed apartment blocks were out of character for the Raheen\/Dooradoyle area, which they described as \u201coverpopulated and oversaturated with residential developments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also said there were fears of the impact the development could have on the Loughmore Canal.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed development was to be made up of 54 three-bed units, and four units with four bedrooms.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, 38 apartments were planned in a mix of one and two bed units.<\/p>\n<p>However, An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la refused permission.<\/p>\n<p>It said it is not satisfied the development wouldn\u2019t impact local environmentally protected sites.<\/p>\n<p>However, they said the principle of housing on the site is acceptable, subject to safeguards to protect the area\u2019s established environmental and historical assets.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERMISSION for almost 100 homes in Raheen has been refused by An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la. Limerick City and County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,61,60,1396,43,1895],"class_list":{"0":"post-113908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-bord-pleanala","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-raheen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}