Decision due on plan for 24-room Laytown school
THE Board of Management of Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh in Laytown should know by May 29 if plans for a new school building will be accepted by the council.
The original application was lodged in May 2017 and further information on the project was forwarded to the council in recent weeks.
The plan is for the development on a 1.01ha. site at Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh and the former Laytown National School, a Protected Structure.
The development will consist of the construction of a new 4,100sqm two storey primary school building, providing 24 classrooms, a general purpose area, a Special Needs Unit, ancillary teaching and staff accommodation.
The development will also consist of the refurbishment of the 1947 former National School building, a Protected Structure, with an area of 138sqm. The
development will also consist of the demolition of the existing single storey school building and prefabricated buildings. The development will also include a new vehicular entrance and separate exit to Coast Road, realignment of existing entrance to the adjoining convent gateway at the Coast Road, the closure of the existing vehicle
access onto the Coast Road and the relocation of existing pedestrian entrance.
There will be two new hard play courts and play space with site landscaping, bicycle parking spaces and 43 car parking spaces including 3 accessible car parking spaces and general associated works.