MEMORY LANE! Dromin Road photographed by Bridget Delaney in 2011, before the major improvement scheme that created the thoroughfare that is there now. The Dromin Road has since been the subject of a number of new housing plans.

Major housing plans for Nenagh

Plans for a total of 142 residential units and a crèche on the outskirts of Nenagh have been submitted to Tipperary Co Council.

Dromin Nenagh Property Development Ltd submitted two separate applications to develop a site on the town’s Dromin Road. The first seeks permission for 91 residential units comprised of 10 four-bed two-storey detached houses; one four-bed two-storey detached house; 32 four-bed two-storey semi-detached houses; nine four-bed two-storey semi-detached houses; five four-bed two-storey semi-detached houses; 32 three-bed two-storey semi-detached houses; one three-bed two-storey semi-detached house, and one three-bed two-storey semi-detached house.

Planning permission is also sought for the construction of a new single-storey crèche consisting of four classrooms, a sleep room, kitchens, toilets, stores, staff room, office, reception and associated ancillary areas, together with new vehicular and pedestrian entrance, boundary treatments, new car parking and set-down area, bin store, external play area and signage.

Further permission is sought for the demolition of an unfinished two-storey dwelling on the site. The applicant intends to create a new vehicular road and pedestrian access from the existing access on Dromin Road; new vehicular roads and pedestrian accesses from the extended access road, together with new boundary treatments, landscaping, public lighting, car parking, signage, ESB sub-station, and drainage works. A Natura Impact Statement is included with the application.

The company’s second application seeks permission for 51 residential units comprising two two-storey detached apartment blocks, each with two one and two-bed apartments on ground floor level and two one and two-bed apartments on first floor (total of 16 units in the two blocks). Eleven three-bed two-storey end-terrace houses are planned along with 21 two-bed two-storey mid-terrace houses, and three three-bed two-storey end-terrace houses.

The plan includes the demolition of three unfinished two-storey dwellings and three foundations and bases for three two-storey dwellings. Associated site works similar to the first application are also sought.

Landowner consent in the name of Michelle McNamara, Director of A&G Thomond Builders, was granted in the case of each application.

Both applications were received by the council on September 30. The second has since been marked invalid. A decision is due on the first application by November 24.