Redevelopment of lands located directly east of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

Proposed development

Permission for redevelopment of lands located directly east of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, and including lands within the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) Campus, at Beechgrove/Boyle O’Reilly Terrace/Windmill Road, parking also at a site (proposed for car parking) at The Twenties, Moneymore, Drogheda. The site is located north of Our Lady of Lourdes Church (RC), which is a protected structure (RPS ref. DB-099). The development will consist of the construction of a new hospice development providing regional palliative care services in a part 3 and 4 storey building (over 1-2 level basement). A number of the existing MMM building structures on site will be incorporated and partly demolished/altered within the new building development including the existing 4-storey tower building and auditorium building. The proposed hospice will contain 36 no. in-patient bedrooms, day hospital treatment rooms, administration/research services, associated utility and clinical rooms, accommodation for families of patients, oratory, restaurant, kitchen, meeting rooms, winter gardens, terraces and loggia, coffee docks, staff and changing rooms, remains viewing room and all associated ancillary areas. The basement will be accessed via a vehicular ramp and new vehicular access from the Beechgrove/Boyle O’Reilly Terrace/Windmill Road, and will include 37 no. car parking spaces and 42 no. bicycle spaces. The development will also include refuse store, plant, sprinkler tank, M&E services, part blue roof and all associated plant and servicing areas (including the relocation of an existing ESB substation to a new free standing building and incorporating additional storage). The development includes an internal link to the existing hospital at ground floor level. The development includes for the provision of a landscaped courtyard, and associated landscaped areas, upgraded public footpath and lighting, laybys for deliveries/waste collection and set down area, boundary treatments and all associated site works and services provision (including drainage upgrade works along Windmill Road and Ballymakenny Road). The development will include the provision of an additional overflow car parking area of 50. no. spaces provided at Cross Lane, Moneymore with new access via The Twenties. This amounts to a combined total of 87no. car parking spaces

Planning status

Permission was granted on 3 Jul 2024. The four-week appeal period has passed with no appeal recorded, so the permission is final. Works can start once a commencement notice is lodged; the register gives its end as 4 Aug 2029.

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