Water Street , Castlepollard , Co. Westmeath

What’s proposed

development and retention of the change of use from a former single dwelling house, domestic garage and garden area to a community facility. Permission is sought to extend the existing pedestrian footpath link to connect the property to the established pedestrian network, provide for 6 no. car parking spaces (of which 1 no. accessible space, 1 no. community car EV charging point) and 10 no. covered and secure cycle parking spaces and any other associated boundary, landscaping and associated above and below ground works

2560044 is a planning application to Westmeath County Council for development and retention of the change of use from a former single dwelling house, received on 14 Feb 2025; permission was granted with conditions on 2 May 2025.

Planning details

Reference: 2560044
Local authority: Westmeath County Council
Status: Appeal decided — refused · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
Received: 14 Feb 2025
Observations close: 21 Mar 2025 (closed 547 days ago)
Decision due: 13 May 2025 · decided 2 May 2025
Decision: Conditional on 2 May 2025
Proposed development: development and retention of the change of use from a former single dwelling house, domestic garage and garden area to a community facility. Permission is sought to extend the existing pedestrian footpath link to connect the property to the established pedestrian network, provide for 6 no. car parking spaces (of which 1 no. accessible space, 1 no. community car EV charging point) and 10 no. covered and secure cycle parking spaces and any other associated boundary, landscaping and associated above and below ground works
As published by the register.
Site area: 2,223 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

The register records appeal ABP-322605-25 (status unknown) but we have not matched the ACP case yet.

Commencement

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Provenance

Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 (store id 492076). 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/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560044/0.

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Provenance

Water Street , Castlepollard , Co. Westmeath

What’s proposed

Planning details

Nearby 14 applications within 500 m in the last 5 years

Appeal

Commencement

Zoning at the site

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