Refused plans for new motor home park in Waterford appealed by developer

Local council refused plans for a 52-motor home park and glamping pods at Tramore

Plans also included a waiting area, staff canteen, changing rooms, bathrooms, kitchen building, surf club, street food plaza, café, and other associated site development works.

Plans for a new motorhome park in Waterford, which were refused by the local council, have been appealed by the developer to An Coimisiún Pleanála.

Aengus Rory Walsh lodged plans to construct a 52-motor home park as well as four family-friendly glamping pods at Tramore Burrow in Waterford.

The development would have also comprised a waiting area, staff canteen, changing rooms, bathrooms, kitchen building, surf club, street food plaza, café, and other associated site development works.

Waterford City and County Council refused the plans, saying the site would be “prejudicial to the sustainability of the public water/wastewater supply,” thus impacting public health.

Now, the plans have been appealed to the planning commission, which is due to decide on the development by March 18, 2026.

Meanwhile, plans for a large-scale residential development in Waterford comprising almost 250 homes have been refused by the local council.

Developer Belindere Homes Limited lodged plans to build 243 homes south of Lacken Wood Residential Estate and east of Lacken Road, in the townland of Kilbarry.

The development also included a childcare facility, with the development spanning almost 24,000 sq m in total. It also provided for 366 residential car parking spaces and 25 visitor parking spaces.

The 243 homes were to comprise 99 terraced apartment units, 20 apartment/duplex units, 48 two-storey, three-bedroom houses and 76 two-storey, four-bedroom houses.

Associated site works also included public open spaces, hard and soft landscaping, roads and pedestrian walkways, public lighting, pedestrian accesses and bin storage.

However, the council refused the plans, stating in its decision that agricultural traffic movement from an existing farm in the area via the residential development would endanger public safety. 

It also said it was not satisfied that the development would not detract from the residential amenity of existing homes in the area.