Redevelopment: Carlow is being targeted for another shopping centre. Property developer Myles Crofton of Naus Investments is to seek planning permission for a €150 million shopping, leisure and residential development on the old Minch Norton site near the Seven Oaks Hotel.

The centrepiece of the development will be a 14,000 sq m (150,694 sq ft) shopping complex on two floors beside the Barrow river.

The Fairgreen shopping centre of a similar size is already trading and a further 9,298 sq m (100,000 sq ft) of retail space is due to open this year.

Meanwhile, the owners behind the Texas department store are also believed to be planning to open a shopping complex at Dublin Street.

The Riverside Quarter shopping centre will be linked via covered shopping streets to other facilities including a health and fitness centre with a swimmingpool and gymnasium.

There will also be 200 residential units and a car-park for 700 cars.

Mr Crofton is currently developing a new shopping and residential centre in Ashbourne, Co Meath.

His agents on the Carlow scheme are Harrington Bannon and Thomas F Kehoe.