Exciting new €6million development proposed for Drumshanbo town centre

Project involves redevelopment of two vacant buildings on Main Street

Leitrim County Council has lodged an application for €6.17m development in Drumshanbo, Bernard Greene, Senior Planner, told a special meeting this week in Ballinamore which was held to discuss the Part 8 proposal from the Drumshanbo Town Centre Regeneration Project.

Mr Greene explained that the project is 90% government funded with the council paying €617,000.

The project will be funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development if successful.

The project involves redevelopment of two vacant buildings on Main Street, namely the former Bank of Ireland, a three-storey building, and the adjacent commercial building formerly known as ‘Earley’s’, a three-storey building.

Works will include a linear two-storey extension to the south side linking both buildings to provide commercial use to the entire ground floor and new smart working facility to the entire first and second floors as well as a pedestrian walkway on the ground floor through ‘Earley’s’ building to link a new public

The project also involves the creation of a public realm and additional parking to the rear of the renovated and extended commercial buildings on Main Street.

Works will include new vehicular and pedestrian access routes through the existing stone boundary wall between the existing Market Street carpark and the former Bank of Ireland Building, the provision of new public lighting, a dedicated pedestrianised public realm that will incorporate seating and a car park for seven car parking spaces.

The project will also see redevelopment and partial reconstruction of two derelict outbuildings to the east of the Drumshanbo River to provide commercial use on both ground and first floors respectively.