€500,000 planning application made for proposed Drumconrath amenity area

Meath County Council has made a €500,000 application for a newly proposed amenity area in Drumconrath under the Town and Village Scheme.

The site, located at the old Doyles Garage which has now been demolished, was subject of a compulsory acquisition by Meath County Council under the Derelict Sites Act at the end of last year and it is now in council ownership.

The plans include site preparation works, site clearance and drainage improvement works, together with hard landscaping works including local stone cladding seating walls, resin bound gravel pathways, granite paving plaza areas and concrete seating walls with a wooden top. Soft landscaping includes grass meadows and dotted small tree varieties. A 3v3 half basketball court, two fixed structured table tennis courts, children's chute slides and outdoors exercise equipment are also in the plans.

Conservation works will be carried out to Drumconrath House and a change of use is proposed from residential to cafe on the ground floor and economic self-contained business rooms on the upper floor. There will be improvement works to the junction including traffic calming measures, speed bumps and new roadside kerbing.

Cllr Eugene Cassidy said he hopes that a contractor can be on sight by the fourth quarter of 2026.

“This amenity area will transform the village of Drumconrath and create a whole new focal point in the village," Eugene Cassidy said. “I’m really looking forward to seeing this project through to completion.”