Planning application 26/1799
50-Dwelling Residential Development, Aghada Upper
Townland of Aghada, along the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside, Aghada Upper, Co. Cork
Current status
Status not classified
Council status: Awaiting F.I. Response
Latest milestone
Application received
3 Jul 2026
Application timeline
Key milestones
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Application received
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Why this application matters
Homes and scale
The scheme proposes 50 two-storey homes on an approximately 2.1-hectare site, with 6,650.59 sq m of gross floor space. The mix comprises 15 four-bedroom detached or semi-detached houses, 26 three-bedroom semi-detached houses and nine three-bedroom terraced homes.
Access and movement
A new main vehicular and pedestrian entrance is proposed from Local Road L3658-0 at the existing agricultural access, alongside a separate pedestrian entrance in the site’s south-east. Provision includes 100 resident parking spaces, 10 visitor bicycle spaces, internal roads, walkways and permeability routes.
Site infrastructure
The development includes private and public open space, landscaping, public lighting and boundary treatments. Surface-water drainage is proposed through sustainable urban drainage measures incorporating attenuated soakaways.
Earlier Aghada Upper scheme
The same applicant previously secured conditional permission for 21 homes on a 0.9159-hectare site in Aghada Upper, including detached and semi-detached houses, access from Church Road/Upper Aghada Local Road, and attenuated soakaways.
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Application details
- Planning reference
- 26/1799
- Council
- Cork County Council
- Proposal description
- Traceway Limited intends to apply for permission for development to construct a residential development comprising of 50 no. two storeys dwellings ranging (totalling 6,650.59 sq m Gross Floor Space) at a site of approximately 2.1 hectares located in the townland of Aghada along the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside, Aghada Upper, Co. Cork. The proposed development will consist of: - 9 no. two-storey 4-bedroom detached dwellings (174.22 sq m gross floor space each) totalling 1,567.98 sq m gross floor space; - 6 no. two-storey 4-bedroom semi-detached dwellings (148.64 sq m each) arranged over 3 no. buildings of 301.84 sq m gross floor space each (totalling 905.52 sq m gross floor space); - 26 no. two-storey 3-bedroom semi-detached dwellings (118.9 sq m each) arranged over 13 no. buildings of 242.43 sq m gross floor space each (totalling 3,151.62 sq m gross floor space); - 9 no. two-storey 3-bedroom terrace dwellings (end-terrace dwellings of 113.56 sq m each and mid-terrace dwellings of 105.44 sq m each) arranged over 3 no. buildings of 341.82 sq m gross floor space each (totalling 1,025.47 sq m gross floor space); all with associated vehicular parking (2 no. per dwelling totalling 100 no. car parking spaces), boundary treatments, private and public open spaces, hard and soft landscaping, internal roads and pedestrian walkways, pedestrian accesses/permeability routes, public site lighting, 10 no. visitor bicycle parking spaces, services (incl. sustainable urban drainage measures incorporating surface water attenuated soakaway), and all other ancillary infrastructure and associated site development works above and below ground level. Primary vehicular and pedestrian access to the proposed development will be via a new entrance from the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside Upper Aghada (at the existing agricultural site access location), and a secondary pedestrian access will be provided in a southeastern location of the site via a new dedicated pedestrian entrance from the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside Upper Aghada.
- Location / address
- Townland of Aghada, along the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside, Aghada Upper, Co. Cork
- Applicant
- Traceway Limited
- Agent
- Wessel Vosloo The Planning Partnership
- Application type
- Permission
- Received / registered
- 3 Jul 2026
- Council status
- Awaiting F.I. Response
- Ward / district
- Municipal Districts: Municipal District of East Cork
- Grid reference
- 585681, 565270
Application location
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Location context
Nearby sold prices
Recent Property Price Register sales in Aghada. Distances are not shown because the sale records do not contain reliable coordinates.
€260,000
15 LOWER AGHADA, AGHADA, MIDLETON
Sold 31 Aug 2026
Locality match
€343,234
21 Ard an Ghleanna, Aghada, County Cork.
Sold 26 Aug 2026
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€343,234
20 Ard an Ghleanna, Aghada, County Cork.
Sold 26 Aug 2026
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€400,000
KILTESKIN, AGHADA, CORK
Sold 25 Aug 2026
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€385,000
18 SIDDONS COURT, AGHADA, MIDLETON
Sold 2 Jul 2026
Locality match
€370,044
No. 14 Ard An Ghleanna, Aghada, Co. Cork
Sold 11 Dec 2025
Locality match
