Planning permission has been submitted for 21 new housing units on the Station Road in Portarlington beside the Odlum’s Factory where a development was previously started but never completed.
Milennial Homes Ltd, which is owned by father-and-son duo Pat and Jonathan Costello from Mayo, applied for planning permission at Corrig Glen on the Station Road in the town at the end of September.
The devolpement comprises of a mix of one and two-bedroom apartments as well as seven three-bedroom houses.
Millennial Homes Ltd bought 40 unused Corrig Glen apartments for €1.5million at an Allsops Auction in May of 2017.
The company refurbished the units and they were all sold to Laois County Council by December of last year.
The Corrig Glen site that this latest planning permission applies to once had a partially built building which was later demolished as it posed a danger to the public. The building was unfinished and was not structurally sound.
“We are hoping to complete the Corrig Glen development and utilise the last of the unfinished prime sites in the town,” explained Jonathan Costello to LaoisToday this week.
“With its close proximity to schools, shops and the train station it is a perfect location for a local family to buy their first home or for a family currently being priced out of Dublin to move to.”
Corrig Glen is one of two projects that Millennial Homes Ltd have worked on in Portarlington as they are also working on the refurbishment of the Riverside development on the Offaly side of Portarlington.
They bought 43 units in Riverside, also for €1.5 million at auction, in 2018 and are in “the process of refurbishing these units and enhancing the estate itself which had become quite dilapidated”.
“We are really a Portarlington based company as we directly employ 18 local tradesmen and all our sub contractors are from the town,” added Mr Costello.
“We also source all our building materials from local suppliers in the town.”
The pictures below show the difference from before and after the works on the two sites.
