Plans for new student accommodation, nursing home and R&D facility at Dundalk IT

Existing student accommodation at Dundalk IT

Plans have been drawn up for new student accommodation, a nursing home and a research and development facility at Dundalk IT.

Fallstar Construction Ltd have applied to Louth County Council for planning permission for a development of four blocks of student housing, three storeys in height, at Greenpark on the Inner Relief Road.

This is beside existing student accommodation to the rear of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Each block would contain 21 units each, with each containing nine rooms. This would lead to 189 rooms in total being built should the go ahead be given.

Mullingar-based Fallstar have also applied to build a 127 room nursing home at the same location. This would be two storeys in height and would include ancillary facilities.

They have also proposed a research development and training centre five storeys in height, which would have a gross floor area of 12,286sqm, all with associated parking and a roof-top plant including optional solar/photovoltaic panels and all associated site development works.

Louth County Council are due to decide on the matter by July 7^th.