Observation pack · Limerick City and County Council

75 + 75A New Road , Thomandgate , Limerick

a change of use from commercial supermarket into residential use and full planning permission for a change of use into student accommodation and demolition of existing rear commercial garage at the rear of the property and the construction of a new three storey student accommodation and a single storey rear extension at 75 and 75A New Road, Thomandgate Limerick and a change of use from existing residential use into student accommodation at 75 and 75A New Road Thomandgate Limerick, Outside amenity space, internal alteration to existing buildings. The proposed development will merge the two building together and will accommodate up to 71 student bed spaces and all associated site works

Observations close 4 Nov 2026 window closed

5 weeks from receipt (received 30 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 24 Nov 2026

The five-week window has passed. Late observations are returned unread. If the council has decided, the next door is the appeal window — but under s.37 only the applicant and those who made a valid observation may appeal.

The application

Reference: 26229 · full record
Authority: Limerick City and County Council
Type: RETENTION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 2
Floor area: 805 m²
Site area: 889 m²
Received: 30 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 21 Oct 2026, 02:10
Decision due: 24 Nov 2026
Decision: N/a

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/26229/0.
Write your observation.Quote 26229 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Limerick City and County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 4 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Limerick City and County Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

What the site is zoned

Code	Objective	Plan	In force
M3 Neighbourhood centre	Local Centre: To protect and provide local centre facilities to serve the needs of new/existing neighbourhoods and residential areas.	limerick development plan 2022 2028	29 Jul 2022 → 1 Jun 2028

An application that accords with the zoning objective is hard to resist on principle; one that does not may be a material contravention, which the council can only grant by the s.34(6) procedure with its own notice and window.

Source: Limerick City and County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Limerick City and County Council development plan zoning	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site

Nothing designated within 100 m of the site.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2661019	Conditional	21 Oct 2026	0	301 m	front porch & vehicular access
26138	Conditional	28 Jul 2026	0	147 m	vehicular entrance, front porch, rear extension and all associated site works
2642	Refused	17 Apr 2026	0	446 m	alterations to existing front boundary to form vehicular entrance and alterations to front garden to provide car parking and associated site works
2560921	Conditional	13 Feb 2026	0	452 m	(1) the erection of a two storey modular building to provide 4no. classrooms and 2no. SEN Rooms, (2) the construction of a 100sqm soft play area with perimeter fencing and 400sqm hardstanding play yard; (3) the construction of new external ramped and stepped access routes with hard standing area, and (4) all other associated site development works, including all foul and surface water drainage works
2561309	Conditional	11 Feb 2026	0	394 m	a new vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works to the front of our dwelling house
2560911	Conditional	28 Nov 2025	0	476 m	garage conversion and internal alterations to side and rear extensions of house and replacement of roller shutter door at side boundary with a pedestrian door and replacement of existing front door to garage with a window
2560001	Conditional	30 Oct 2025	1	194 m	the following: (a) modify, alter and extend an existing (4 unit) apartment building thereby increasing its capacity by 1 No. additional apartment dwellings (to 5 No. apartments in total), (b) Permission is also sought to demolish existing outbuildings. (c) Permission is sought for the construction of a new building which will semi-detach to an adjacent neighbouring building (d) Permission for new boundaries, private amenity spaces, bin storage, bike storage, pedestrian entrance access, connections to public services including all associated site development works
2560386	Conditional	24 Jul 2025	0	393 m	a). demolition of the existing single storey rear extension to the existing derelict dwelling house; (b). to renovate and restore the existing derelict dwelling house including elevational changes and roof changes to the rear, together with internal alterations; c). to construct a new single storey extension rear of the house; d). All associated site works and services. This property is listed on the Derelict Site Register, No. DS-075-17

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
318485	—	Granted with conditions	19 Dec 2024	416 m
318257	—	Granted with conditions	26 Jul 2024	24 m
312559	—	Granted with conditions	20 Sept 2022	90 m

If neighbours here have appealed before and lost, the inspector's report on that case is the single most useful thing to read.

What has happened on this file

30 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 4 Nov 2026
30 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 21 Oct 2026, 02:10. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Limerick City and County Council before relying on it.