Any planned expansion of Scoil Aonghusa in Cashel has been delayed.
It’s due to an incomplete planning application lodged with Tipperary County Council.
The original plan was for a 3,375 square meter two-storey building.
It’s now up to the school to submit an amended application.
The original proposals incorporated 14 classrooms, therapy rooms, home economics, living skills and physiotherapy rooms.
However, the application by the school’s Board of Management has been deemed invalid for a number of reasons.
Among the issues highlighted by Tipperary County Council is inconsistency in the details on site notices and those in newspaper notices and the application itself.
Other issues that invalidated the application were omitted details relating to a covered walkway, proposed site entrance, internal road network and new boundary treatments.
It is now open to the school to submit a new application.
The co-educational special school on the Cahir Road currently has 151 pupils between the ages of 4 and 18.
Its board of management and teaching staff have long campaigned for additional capacity with local politicians also highlighting their case in the Dáil.
