Site planning risk brief

The development will consist of permission for a mixed use retail commercial and residential development that includes the following elements: 1. Demolition of a vacant cottage, a vacant beauty salon, a derelict cottage and outbuildings. 2. Restoration of an existing 70 sq.m derelict single-storey cottage and change of its use from residentail to to retail/coffee shop. 3. Construction of 3 no. buildings as follows; Block 1 is a two-storey commercial use building with retail, beauty salon, and hair salon uses at ground floor level, together with office and medical consulting uses at first floor level. Block 2 is a two-storey commercial use building with retail use at ground floor level, together with office use at first floor level. Block 3 comprises a two-storey mixed use section with a retail unit and a take-away retail unit on the ground floor and 2 no. two-bed apartments overhead, connected to a three-storey residential section that provides 8 no. two-bed apartments at ground floor level together with a total 8 no. three-bed duplex apartment units at 1st & 2nd floor levels. 4. Alterations to proposed vehicular entrance and foothpath previously approved under planning ref: LB160454. 5. Car parking, bicycle parking, bin stores, public lighting, private and public open spaces, landscaping proposals and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

Alterations to previously approved Block 1 at Donacarney Village Square, Donacarney, Co. Meath (Plan Ref No. LB/191761 and Plan ref no 23/60328) including: 1) Amendments to previously permitted roof shape to include the addition of six one-bed apartments at third floor level, and 2) minor changes to the permitted ground floor plan to reduce the retail area by 23.4sq. meters to facilitate storage for the proposed residential units

Alterations to previously permitted Block 4 of Plan Ref No. LB/191761 including: reconstruction of demolished cottage for use as a retail unit and its enlargement by 22.7 sq.m. resulting in a total area of 92.7 sq. m.; new external screened plant area; and associated site development works

Alterations to previously permitted Block 1 at Donacarney Village Square, Donacarney, Co. Meath (Plan Ref No. LB/191761) including a) Ground Floor – Reduction in overall footprint by c. 7.4 sqm, change of use of permitted Pharmacy and Retail 2 unit to restaurant and increase in area of c. 16.0 sqm, reconfiguration of permitted Salon and Beauty retail units and reduction in area of c. 24.5 sqm, provision of lobby, lift and bulky stores to serve apartments above, b) First Floor – removal of permitted office and medical suite and replacement with 2no. levels of apartments totaling 12no. 2 bed apartments resulting in an overall increase in height of c. 2.4m, c) Minor elevational changes to ground floor level, d) Removal of permitted service yard and replacement with landscaped communal garden to serve the apartments included revised boundary treatments, e) Conversion of 1no. permitted standard car parking space into 1no. accessible car parking space and f) All associated bin storage, bicycle storage, and site development works

The development will consist of external fire escape staircase at Block 2 from first floor Medical Centre and minor associated site work. The Medical Centre is permitted under planning reference 23/60378

Provision of Off Licence subsidiary to the main retail use (8.5 sqm) and fascia signage at North, South, West and East Elevations