Five apartments proposed for former Ballyhooly pub

Planning permission is being sought for the development of the former O’Sullivan’s Bar in Ballyhooly village. The bar, across the road from The Roundy House, has been closed for a number of years.

The proposal is for five separate apartments, destined for long-term letting. A single one-bedroom apartment is planned, along with 2 two-bedrooms and 3 three-bedroom apartments. The applicant is a UK based company.

A Conservation Report submitted alongside the planning documents includes the recommendations that a new ‘modest traditional type shopfront’ should be included in the works, along with timber windows and doors to replace the existing PCV ones. It also recommends that lime rendering of the external walls be undertaken.

The architect working on behalf of the developers has requested that the council consider granting permission without undertaking these conservation works, as they would bring a ‘huge financial bearing’ on the works. The architect also points out that, without this development, the building has the potential to remain vacant.

The application commits to undertaking a ‘major cleaning of the façade, new painting including the existing shopfront, and hanging baskets that will represent a major improvement to its current position’.

The former pub was built some time before 1837, as it appears on Ordnance Survey maps from that year.