Abbey Road (R884), Convent Road (R665), Clonmel

What’s proposed

a mixed-use development that will provide 93 no residential dwellings, 2 no local retail units, a cafe and a riverside walk. The 93 residential units are in the form of 30 no two storey houses, 21 no three storey duplex apartments and a four and five storey apartment building containing 42 no apartments (three of which are duplex). All duplex and apartments have balconies or ground floor terraces. The 2 no retail units and the café are located on the ground floor of the apartment building. Open space provided on site consists of a central open public space (1,610 sq. m) public plaza (c.200 sq. m) as well as a riverside walk (3,000 sq. m) along the South of the site bounded by the River Suir. Resident of the apartment buildings will also have access to communal roof garden at fourth floor level. The proposed development will include a reduction in height and alterations to the existing stone boundary wall on Abbey Road and the removal of the remaining boundary walls on to Abbey road and Convent Road and increase permeability through the site. A single vehicular access is proposed off Abbey Road and there will be dedicated pedestrian /cycle access points to both Abbey Road and Convent road. The planning application also provides for all associated car parking including car parking on Abbey Road and Convent Road, footpaths and alterations to road markings on Abbey Road and Convent Road, landscaping and boundary treatments, bin storage, and bicycle storage structures, public lighting, ESB sub station and all associated site development works, including alterations to existing site levels and retaining walls /structures, and the removal/decommissioning of existing utility structures and services on the site. The application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)