Ferrybank Shopping Centre Anchor and Leisure Units

Application details

Planning reference

2560402

Council

Kilkenny County Council

Proposal description

For development. The development consists of: The change of use and amalgamation of the centre’s unoccupied car showroom and adjacent fire service corridor with the centre’s permitted retail anchor unit at ground floor level to form a new single level anchor unit above basement car park levels. The reconfigured anchor unit will have 3,000 sqm net of convenience floorspace (including ancillary off-licence) and 2,042 sqm net of comparison floorspace. The basement storage and goods inward areas of the anchor unit will remain as permitted and constructed. The total gross floor area of the anchor unit will be c. 7,558 sqm, including basement and ground floor levels. Access to the anchor unit will be from the ground floor shopping mall and the central pedestrian street of the shopping centre. The first floor of the retail anchor unit, approved for the sale of comparison goods, will be repurposed into a separate leisure unit measuring c.3,140 sqm (change of use from retail to leisure use). Access to this unit will be from the first floor mall level of the shopping centre. The development includes for all other associated site development works required to complete the development, including new anchor store elevation signage

Location / address

Ferrybank Shopping Centre, Ross Road, Ferrybank Co. Kilkenny

Application type

PERMISSION

Received / registered

1 Jul 2025

Council status

APPLICATION FINALISED

Council decision

CONDITIONAL

Council decision date

25 Aug 2025

Final grant date

26 Sept 2025

Appeal lodged

22 Sept 2025

Appeal decision

Invalid- no acknowledgement of local submission S.127(1)e

Appeal decision date

22 Sept 2025