Planning application for 544 homes on former Spicer lands in Navan

Three years after it changed hands, a massive planning application for a residential development is being submitted for Belmount, the former Spicer-owned lands on the Dublin Road in Navan. 
The strategic housing development application means it bypasses Meath County Council's planners and goes straight to An Bord Pleanala for a decision.
A company called Coindale Limited has erected a planning notice saying it is to apply for 544 dwellings, made up of 260 houses and 284 apartments,  with three access points and  an upgrade to a junction on Dublin Road, as well as two creches and open space areas, on a site of just over 15 hectares.

The applicant seeks to build 18 two-bedroom houses, 207 three-bedroom houses, 35 four-bedroom houses,  198 apartments with balconies in five apartment buildings, comprising 46 one-bedroom apartments and 152 two-bedroom apartments; 15 two-bedroom duplex apartments with terraces or balconies and 15 three-bedroom duplex apartments in three three-storey duplex buildings; eight  five dwelling three-storey corner blocks, each comroising one one-bedroom apartment, two two-bedroom apartments and two three-bedroom units, 40 in total; two eight dwelling three storey corner blocks, each comprising four one-bedroom and four two-bedroom units, 16 in total.
There is also provision for two creches, open space within the development (including playground areas and communal open space areas); all ancillary landscape works with public lighting, planting and boundary treatments including regrading/re-profiling of site where required as well as provision of footpaths.
Access to the subject site will be from three new junctions onto Academy Street, and a new pedestrian access onto the Dublin Road (R147) at the southern end of the site and includes new signalised junction and improvements on the Dublin Road (R147), as well as 875 car parking spaces and 581 cycle spaces, as well as northern vehicular access to also facilitate future adjoining school site campus. 
The proposal includes works to the former access road to Belmount House (a protected structure) as well as landscaping works to associated woodland area.
The site is bounded by Academy Street to the east, and the rear of dwellings on the Dublin Road, Limekiln Wood, Limekiln Hall to the west, Limekiln Wood to the west, Limekiln Hall to the south, and future schools site to the north, all at Belmount. Protected structure Belmount House, the Spicer residence, is located adjacent to the subject lands.
Some 44 acres of Spicer lands were put on sale in the summer of 2016 following the collapse of the family's renowned bakery business after 178 years. It came on the market with residential zoning and an asking price of €4 million.
The application is made by Coindale Limited, a company based in Dawson Street, Dublin, with listed directors Brendan Hickey and Hugh Lynn. Their agent is John Spain Associates of Fitzwilliam Place, and the plans have been prepared by Kevin Laffey of CCK Architects, Merrion Square, Dublin.

See www.belmountnavanshd.ie