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A plan to reflect how Limerick’s newest suburb of Towlerton is expected to appear. Construction is well under way at the brownfield site, with the opening of a school, and the construction of Lidl
DEVELOPERS are seeking a small increase in houses at a proposed new suburb on the edge of Limerick city.
As revealed by Limerick Live, Kirkland Investments have secured planning permission for a €600m plan to transform a brownfield site near Ballysimon Road on the edge of the city.
The firm, which is headed up by Rudi Butler, the son of prominent former city developer Robert Butler, acquired land near an area where the M7 and the N21 meet.
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A new secondary school, Limerick Educate Together is in its second year of operation, while Bons Secours also has permission in place for a private hospital.
In addition to this, a masterplan has been developed which is set to bring 300 apartments, offices and a Lidl supermarket - construction of which has kicked off - to the site on the east of the city.
Healy Partners architects prepared the masterplan strategy for the whole area.
Now, a minor change is set to be sought to the planning permission which is in place, which will see the replacement of commercial units with more housing.
Kirkland Investments is to seek planning permission to alter the permission it has for a commercial and residential unit in one of the buildings planned for the site.
Planned shops for the ground floor will be replaced with housing accommodation.
If granted, it means there will be an increase in housing in one of the several complexes on site from 40 homes to 48 homes.
The application also includes the remodelling of pavements and the addition of landscaping strips and associated site works.
Kirkland has advertised its intention to seek planning permission from Limerick City and County Council by publishing a notice in this newspaper.
The firm now has a fortnight to furnish council planners with more information on the project. Following this, it is anticipated Limerick City and County Council planners will either ask for more information, or deliver a verdict.
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