MAIN STREET , LIFFORD , CO. DONEGAL

What’s proposed

(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDING (FORMER AMUSEMENT ARCADE) AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) 2 NO. RETAIL UNITS AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND (B) 3 NO. 2 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSES ON UPPER LEVELS WITH GROUND FLOOR BIN/ANCILLARY STORAGE SPACE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

1850653 is a planning application to Donegal County Council for (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDING (FORMER AMUSEMENT ARCADE) AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A, received on 25 Apr 2018; permission was granted with conditions on 15 Jun 2018.

Planning details

Reference: 1850653
Local authority: Donegal County Council
Status: Granted with conditions · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
Received: 25 Apr 2018
Observations close: 30 May 2018 (closed 3041 days ago)
Decision due: 19 Jun 2018 · decided 15 Jun 2018
Decision: Conditional on 15 Jun 2018
Proposed development: (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDING (FORMER AMUSEMENT ARCADE) AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) 2 NO. RETAIL UNITS AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND (B) 3 NO. 2 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSES ON UPPER LEVELS WITH GROUND FLOOR BIN/ANCILLARY STORAGE SPACE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
As published by the register.
Site area: 361 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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Provenance

Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 (store id 341908). 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/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850653/0.

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