Plans for Limerick apartment scheme scuppered by An Bord Pleanála backlog

Development of 38 apartments in Caherdavin green-lit by planning board inspector less than two weeks before new council development plan came into force, limiting scale of development on site

Under the city’s new development plan, the area of Caherdavin/Moyross’s strategic flood risk assessment does not permit major development within certain areas deemed to be in a flood zone.

Plans for dozens of new apartments in Limerick, recommended for approval by a planning inspector at An Bord Pleanála, had to be turned down due to a technicality arising from delays at the planning board.

Clarisford Investments had sought permission for a multi-storey development on Clonmacken Road, Caherdavin, in January of last year.