Main Street / Townparks, Templemore, Co. Tipperary

What’s proposed

a) dismantling and removal of existing ‘Shortt’s’ three-level shop, residence and out-offices and adjoining three-level residence, out-offices and walls (formally known as ‘Prout’s’), removal of boundary wall to laneway, b) formation of an opening in the Town Park wall adjacent to the heritage gate piers to Town Park to provide for a pedestrian pathway through and to improve vehicular sight-lines, c) widening of laneway to become a street with footpath, short spur road at the north end of the site, d) form a ‘pedestrian permeability’ link to ‘Pickfoot Lane’ from the proposed development, e) conservation works to a section to what is known locally as the ‘Famine Cottage’ wall; f), surface water drainage system with attenuated disposal to percolation on site, foul effluent drainage system discharging to existing public foul sewerage system, water and fire hydrant connections to existing public water supply, site lighting, g) car parking and green area at spur road, h) contribution to cost of 2 no. ‘accessible’ car park spaces at frontage to Main Street payable to the Local Authority, I) small mono-pitch single-storey estate maintenance store building on the spur road; j) 8 no. 2 bedroom apartments, and 4 no. 1 bedroom apartments and 10 no. 2 storey 2 bedroom dwellings k) private utility open space to rear of apartment building, clothes lines, bicycle parking, single-storey waste management building, small yard, side gate and boundary walls; l) associated hard and soft landscaping, etc