High Court quashes permission for student apartment plan in Limerick

The permission was quashed because An Bord Pleanála failed to send ETI’s 100-page submission on the development to the local council within the required time limit

The four to six-storey blocks comprise 30 build-to-rent apartments and 70 further apartments catering for 326 student bed spaces on land at Punches Cross, which is currently occupied by a partially demolished petrol station and other disused buildings. File picture

Planning permission for the development of 30 apartments and more than 300 student bed spaces on the outskirts of Limerick city has been quashed by the High Court.

Environmental Trust Ireland (ETI) succeeded in its challenge to the strategic housing development, which had received fast-track approval from An Bord Pleanála in August of last year.