Site planning risk brief

Development for a nursing home at a site of c.1.3ha, in the south-eastern part of the former Greenpark Racecourse, Dock Road, Limerick. The proposed nursing home will be accessed via Log na gCapall, via an existing access point. The development will be 4 storeys in height with a total gross floor area of c.5,237sq m, consisting of 123no. rooms, comprising 126no. bedspaces (120 no. single rooms and 3 no. double rooms) and ancillary facilities, including 777 sq m of day space. The development will also consist of soft and hard landscaping including 2,954 sq m of open space; 32 no. surface car parking spaces (including 3 no. electric parking spaces); bicycle parking; internal roads and pathways; boundary treatment including sloped embankments; SUDS measures including green roof; piped infrastructural services and connections; plant; revised tie in arrangements to Log na gCapall (including road widening); waste management provision; public lighting; earthworks; and all site development and excavation works above and below ground. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application

Application - Construction of 371 residential units, proposed access road and two storey childcare facility

The conversion of existing garage into additional ground floor living space as well as the construction of a single storey rear extension and associated site works

Extension of permission for planning reference number 15/175

A Large-Scale Residential Development (LRD) comprising amendments to a previously permitted Strategic Housing Development (SHD) (An Bord Pleanála Reg. Ref. 311588-21) with a total application site area of c. 10.5Ha (with a substantive residential site development area of c. 7.9Ha), on lands at the Former Greenpark Racecourse, Dock Road, Limerick, principally bounded by existing undeveloped lands to the north, south, and west and the adjoining Log na gCapall Housing Estate and Greenpark Avenue to the east. The proposed amendments relate solely to the previously permitted Apartment Blocks A and B, and the areas between and immediately surrounding these Blocks. The development will consist of: the relocation of bin stores within permitted service area located between Apartment Blocks A and B; provision of ESB substation with associated switch room within service area; omission of bicycle parking within service area; associated amendments to footprint and elevational arrangement of service area; change of use of 2 no. permitted Ground Floor units within Apartment Block A from ancillary residential amenity use to residential use (to provide 2 no. 2-bedroom apartments with associated private terraces); change of use of permitted plant rooms at Ground Floor Level of Apartment Blocks A and B for use as bicycle storage; provision of cleaners store and smoke shaft at Ground Floor Level of Apartment Block A; minor internal design revision at Ground Floor Level at Apartment Block A; minor elevational amendments to Apartment Blocks A and B; minor revisions to hard and soft landscaping; minor revisions to cycle parking arrangements; cabling and ducting; and all associated site development and excavation works above and below ground. The proposed amendments will not result in any changes to the Gross Floor Area of Apartment Blocks A and B. The planning application may also be inspected online at the following website: www.greenparklrd.ie

A loft conversion room in the existing roof space together with stairs access from the first floor and three velux roof windows in the rear roof