98-home scheme proposed at Clonmullin and Gallowshill, Geraldine Road, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 100 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,638 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% were granted.

What happens next

The five-week window for public submissions has closed. The council normally decides within eight weeks of the application being lodged, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Kildare County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

for Phase 1 of a three phase housing development to include (a) erection of 98 residential units comprising 2 no. two storey 140.94 m2 4 bedroom detached dwelling houses (House Type A), 4 no. two storey 128m2 4 bedroom semi-detached dual aspect dwelling houses (House Type B/B1), 4 no. two storey 114m2 4 bedroom semi-detached dwelling houses (House Type C), 8 no. two storey 113 m2 3 bedroom semi-detached dwelling houses (House Type D), 20 no. two storey, Type E – 114.25 m2, Type E1 – 118 m2 3 bedroom semi-detached dwelling houses (House Type E/E1), 16 no. two storey 100 m2 3 bedroom semi-detached dwelling houses (House Type F), 20 no. two storey 89.5 m2 2 bedroom town houses (House Type G), 4 no. three storey duplex blocks (Block H) comprising 8 no. ground floor 73.93 m2 2 bedroom apartments and 8 no. 100 m2 3 bedroom duplex apartments on first and second floors, 2 no. two storey apartment blocks (Block I) EACH comprising 2 no. ground floor 73.93 m2 2 bedroom apartments and 2 no. first floor 49.76 m2 1 bedroom apartments to include car parking, bin stores, bicycle stores and boundary wall (b) new site entrance off Geraldine Road (c) provide vehicular and pedestrian access to adjoining site to the south west comprising 0.8453 acres currently zoned “C” New Residential (d) all site development works associated with phase 1, 2 and 3 of the three phase residential development including footpaths, roads, public lighting, attenuation ponds, surface water drains, foul sewer drains, water mains and all other utility services necessary to service the proposed development. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. The overall number of residential units now proposed is 98. This Planning Application is an unchanged re-application for that previously granted Planning Permission on Planning File Register Reference 18/921. It should be noted that Planning Permission 18/921 was granted on 3rd September 2019. Planning Permission for Phase 2 was granted on 11th August 2020 and Planning Permission for Phase 3 has been granted on 11th February 2020