Ardhu House Large-Scale Residential Development

The project is a new residential development scheme at the Ardhu House Site at Ennis Road, Roses Avenue and North Circular Road, Limerick, consisting of c160 apartments ranging in height from 3 to 5 storeys, a creche, the refurbishment of Ardhu House, a protected structure to provide ancillary residential amenity uses and the refurbishment of the Ardhu Bar.

The proposed development meets the threshold for LRD, being a development of 100 or more houses on land zoned for residential purposes.

Client

Tribeca Holdings ULC

Involvement

June 2022-Ongoing

Architect

Healy Partners Architects

Location

Ennis Road, Rose’s Avenue & North Circular Road, Limerick

Role

Town & Country Resources Limited is planning advisor to the client, project architect and design team. This entails:

  • providing strategic planning guidance on how best to achieve the clients’ and project architect’s vision for the site which presents issues of re-use of vacant and underutilised land and buildings; appropriate land use mix; residential densities; re-use of a protected structure of significance whilst ensuring minimum impact on character and scale; the insertion of new build elements within an established residential neighbourhood.
  • Dianne McDonogh is currently leading all planning aspects of the proposal, including management of consultations with key stakeholders and statutory consultees; co-ordination and preparation of the planning application documents.

Planning Outcome

The project is progressing through all statutory LRD pre-planning stages, with a planning application expected to be lodged before the end of 2023.