Apartment block planned for Roscrea motor site

Tipperary Co Council has received a planning application for a 27-bed apartment building at the Roscrea Motor Works site.

Dermot Ryan and Rosemary Ryan are applying for permission to develop a site at the junction of Lourdes Road and Church St. The plan involves demolition of Roscrea Motor Works (incorporating Milan Motors) including all below-ground fuel tanks and forecourt fuel pumps, and a two-storey semi-detached unoccupied residential house known as Roseville. Also to be demolished is a two-storey semi-detached residential unoccupied dwelling house known as Maryville, and a single-storey detached shed building known as Wrennswood Fuels.

Permission is sought for the construction of a three-to-five-storey building accommodating 27 apartments. These are to be comprised of 18 one-bedroom apartments, seven two-bedroom apartments and two three-bedroom apartments.

A new vehicular entrance to the development off Church St is also planned, along with nine car parking spaces and 10 bicycle parking spaces, and connections to all services, and all ancillary site development works.

A decision from the council is due by November 22 next.