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Carlow County Council · 19492

Kilkenny Road , Carlow

  1. 19 Dec 2019Received
  2. 22 Sept 2020Conditional
  3. 23 Nov 2020Final grant
  4. 22 Nov 2025Permission expires
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Status
Granted with conditions
Decision
Conditional · 22 Sept 2020
Council
Carlow County Council
Type
PERMISSION
Site
4,443 m²
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What’s proposed

The application site is located on a site measuring 0.435ha on the campus of institute of Technology, Carlow, bounded by the Kilkenny Road to the West, partly on the footprint of the VEC school building for which planning permission for demolition has already been granted (PL Reg. REF 15/54). Permission is sought for a Third Level Educational Health Sciences Building of 6,133 m2 gross internal floor area. The building is part single storey and part four storeys tall, together with rooftop plant and screening. Internally the building is composed of science laboratories, clinics, sports and health science spaces including large gym labs and running track, and administration rooms with a central roof-lit social space on the upper floors and large entrance hall in the South East corner of the building. The site is to be accessed by an existing vehicular entrance to the IT Carlow Campus off the Kilkenny Road. The application includes additionally for proposed landscaping around the perimeter of the building and the removal of trees on the subject site, as well as the provision of 176 bicycle parking spaces to serve the building, including a 105m2 secure and sheltered bicycle store on the Eastern boundary of the campus. The total floor area of the proposed development is therefore 6,238m2. This application includes for all site signage, utility connections and ancillary site works associated with the project

19492 is a planning application to Carlow County Council for the application site is located on a site measuring 0.435ha on the campus of institute, received on 19 Dec 2019; permission was granted with conditions on 22 Sept 2020.

Planning details

Reference
19492
Local authority
Carlow County Council
Status
Granted with conditions · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
Received
19 Dec 2019
Observations close
3 Feb 2020 (closed 2420 days ago)
Decision due
22 Sept 2020 · decided 22 Sept 2020
Decision
Conditional on 22 Sept 2020
Proposed development
The application site is located on a site measuring 0.435ha on the campus of institute of Technology, Carlow, bounded by the Kilkenny Road to the West, partly on the footprint of the VEC school building for which planning permission for demolition has already been granted (PL Reg. REF 15/54). Permission is sought for a Third Level Educational Health Sciences Building of 6,133 m2 gross internal floor area. The building is part single storey and part four storeys tall, together with rooftop plant and screening. Internally the building is composed of science laboratories, clinics, sports and health science spaces including large gym labs and running track, and administration rooms with a central roof-lit social space on the upper floors and large entrance hall in the South East corner of the building. The site is to be accessed by an existing vehicular entrance to the IT Carlow Campus off the Kilkenny Road. The application includes additionally for proposed landscaping around the perimeter of the building and the removal of trees on the subject site, as well as the provision of 176 bicycle parking spaces to serve the building, including a 105m2 secure and sheltered bicycle store on the Eastern boundary of the campus. The total floor area of the proposed development is therefore 6,238m2. This application includes for all site signage, utility connections and ancillary site works associated with the project
As published by the register.
Site area
4,443 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
Applicant
Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register

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Appeal

Not appealed.

Commencement

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    Zoning at the site

    No zoning objective covers this site in the current plan.

    Designations within 250 m

    No OPW flood extent nearby.

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    Provenance

    Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 (store id 169729). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: http://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19492/0.

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