Observation pack · Louth County Council

Sportsmanshall , Dundalk , Co. Louth

Permissio for the following: 1. demolition of existing extension to rear of dwelling. 2. Construction of new extension to rear and side of dwellinghouse. 3. Installation of new waste water treatment and polishing filter and all Associated site development works

Observations close 27 Nov 2026 13 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 23 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 17 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2660728 · full record
Authority: Louth County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Units: 1
Floor area: 24 m²
Site area: 959 m²
Received: 23 Oct 2026
Decision due: 17 Dec 2026

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at http://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660728/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660728 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. Louth County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 27 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Louth 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
C2.1 Economic development and employment	General Employment: To provide for general enterprise and employment generating activities.	louth county development plan	11 Nov 2021 → 1 Jan 2027

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: Louth County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

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

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660229	Conditional	2 Oct 2026	99	401 m	Permission for: The construction of 99 no. residential units, comprising of 10 no. 2 bedroom houses, 56 no. 3 bedroom houses and 33 no. 4 bedroom houses with associated private open space; The construction of a childcare facility with external play area; Provision of associated car and cycle parking; Boundary treatments, public open space and landscaping; 1 no. ESB sub-station; 3 no. vehicular access off Armagh Road and the provision of internal access roads; Provision of a shared pedestrian / cycle facility along Armagh Road and all associated site and infrastructural works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this planning application
2560399	Conditional	2 Dec 2025	91	400 m	permission for a proposed residential development on 3.26ha hectares of lands in the townland of Lisdoo at Armagh Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth. The proposed development will consist of 99 no. residential units, comprising of 91 no. houses (including 4 no. 2-bed, 57 no. 3-bed, and 30 no. 4-bed units), and 8 no. duplex units arranged in 2 no. 3-storey blocks (including 4 no. 1-bed and 4 no. 2-bed units); ancillary open space; associated car and cycle parking; boundary treatment, public open space and landscaping; 1 no. ESB sub-station; 2 no. vehicular access off Armagh Road; a shared pedestrian / cycle facility along Armagh Road; and all associated site and infrastructural works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this planning application.
2560483	Conditional	15 Sept 2025		0 m	The development will consist of: (1) Construction of a light industrial / manufacturing facility [c.15,967sq.m GFA / height c.14.57m]. The main facility will include manufacturing and warehousing areas at ground floor, with production offices and storage at first floor / mezzanine-levels. Ancillary uses will consist of research and development (R&D) and office space, a reception / showroom, stair and lift cores, circulation areas, and staff welfare amenities, all extending over two floors in the north and west of the facility. (2) A pedestrian and vehicular access and egress point to the west of the facility and a HGV access and egress point to the south-west of the facility, both connecting to the internal road network of the Dundalk North Business Park. (3) Provision of 200 no. car parking spaces, including 10 no. accessible spaces and 40 no. electric vehicle (EV) charging spaces, and 14 no. motorcycle parking spaces, located to the west of the facility. (4) Provision of 40 no. covered bicycle parking spaces, located to the north (10 no. spaces) and west (30 no. spaces) of the facility. (5) A service / marshalling yard to the east and south of the facility. (6) Provision of out / utility buildings [c.1,329.9sq.m. GFA], shelter structures, external storage, battery storage, plant, a generator, a transformer, sprinkler tank and pump house. (7) An ESB substation and switchroom to the north-west of the facility. (8) A R&D yard to the north of the facility, comprising of varying terrains and slopes, a viewing platform, a machine wash area, a machine compound, and a bio-retention SuDS area. (9) Provision of site lighting, security fencing, and gates. (10) Installation of PV panels at roof level. (11) Erection of building mounted signage on the north, east and west elevations [(c.5m high x c.3m wide) x 3 no. signs] and an illuminated totem sign located at the facilities main entrance [c.2m high x c.1m wide]. (12) The erection of a retaining wall, an acoustic fence, and a berm with screen planting along the eastern boundary, and a berm with screen planting to the north and west of the R&D yard. (13) All hard and soft landscaping works, including the provision of SuDS features, surface treatments, planting, and boundary treatments. (14) All associated site development works, including above and below ground services, on a site of c.6.39ha.
22976	Conditional	28 Jul 2023		157 m	Permission for a 10 year permission on a site of 26.4778 hectares, to include: the provision of infrastructure utilising constructed and part constructed infrastructure carried out under ref.no. 04179, extended by 09803, 14109 and 18407. 14 no. warehouse/logistics/light industrial buildings each with ancillary offices, plant, parking and yards as per site and newspaper notices - the overall gross floor area of the warehouse/logistics/light industrial units is 68,531sqm; 1 no. fuel filling station (Unit 6) with associated retail, restaurant/cafe facilities, signage and car parking and car wash. Internal roads infrastructure; water infrastructure (potable water, surface water (incl. SuDS measures) and foul water. Utilities infrastructure and connections including substations. Provision of a river walk along the Castle town River. Landscaping works, including boundary treatments and cut and fill of the lands to provide for finished ground levels. All associated site development works. Unit 11 is subject of a seperate permission (ref. no. 22/524 refers). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement have been submitted with this application Significant further information received on 9.6.23
23103	Conditional	20 Apr 2023		280 m	Permission is sought by Urban Green Private Ltd. acting for TrippierLtd to vary Condition 3 of the permission granted on 19/12/22 (Reg. Ref 22/524) for a warehouse development of 37,289 sq.m at Dundalk North BusinessPark, Armagh Road, Dundalk, County Louth. Condition 3 limited the hours of operation to 0800 hr - 1800hrs Monday - Saturday. This application seekds to vary this condition such that hours of operation of the facility shoud be unrestricted.
22876	Conditional	3 Mar 2023		158 m	Permission for the construction of 2.4m high security fence, 149.95m long, located in a ca.0.783ha site in the south-east section of the Dundalk North Business Park. Access to the development inside the site will be from the recently constructed internal road network

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
500455		Granted with conditions	26 May 2026	400 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

23 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 27 Nov 2026
23 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 11 Nov 2026, 23:00. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Louth County Council before relying on it.