Planning permission granted by Donegal County Council for 56 Dunfanaghy dwellings

Donegal County Council has granted planning permission for the construction of 56 residential dwellings in Dunfanaghy. 

The 44 houses and 12 apartments that were granted permission would be built instead of the 51 units that had planning permission granted by Donegal County Council in other applications dating back to 2004 and 2006. 

All associated site development works to include associated carparking, landscaped amenity spaces, surface play areas and seating areas, connection to existing onsite services and access to the site via two existing entrances that were previously constructed were included in the application.

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The proposed site is over three hectares in size and is located off the N56, just a three-minute walk to the centre of Dunfanaghy. 

According to MH Associates Surveyors, the development had been designed to “provide new residential accommodation that will help to address the significant and current housing need,” and that a management company would be set up “to manage and maintain the development as well as the external communal and public areas and waste arrangements.”

Donegal County Council granted planning permission with 26 conditions, including a condition that prior to the commencement of the development, the developer shall provide adequate security to the Planning Authority for the provision and completion of all services required in the sum of €840,000, either by a bond of a banking or insurance company, or a cash deposit, or another such security that the Council may approve.