Kildare County Council grants permission for 51-home scheme at Capdoo, Abbeylands, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 100 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,641 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 22 January 2024. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

(to the north of Brooklands Housing Estate and to the west of the River Liffey). The development consist of: (i) construction of a residential development comprising a mix of house units, apartment and maisonette units providing for a total of 51 no. residential units including; (a) 35 no. house units (6 no. two bedroom terraced houses, 17 no. three-bedroom houses (1 no. detached three bedroom house, 4 no. semi detached three bedroom houses and 12 No. terraced three bedroom houses and 12 no. four bedroom semi-detached houses) ranging in height from 2-3 storeys; (b) 8 no. maisonettes units (4 no. two bedroom maisonette units and 4 no. 1 bedroom maisonette units) comprised within 2 no. 2-storey buildings; and (c) 1 no. three storey flat roof, apartment block comprising 8 no. two bedroom apartments. Private amenity space will be provided the proposed house units in the form of rear private gardens with the maisonette units being served by designated areas of private amenity space to the rear at ground floor level and the proposed apartment units being served by private balconies/terraces. (ii) provision of a creche (c.485.76sq.m) at ground floor level of the proposed apartment block with an associated outdoor space; (iii) provision of a total of 126 no. car parking spaces (inclusive of 2 no. accessible parking spaces), 70 no. of which will serve the proposed house units, 16 no. of which will serve the proposed maisonette units (inclusive of 4 no. visitor parking spaces) 14 no. of which will serve the proposed apartment units (inclusive of 2 no. visitor parking spaces) and 26 no. of which will serve the proposed creche facility; (iv) provision of a 8 no. sheltered bicycle parking stores to serve the proposed maisonette units located within the private amenity space associated with each unit, with 4 no. visitor bicycle parking spaces provided at surface level; (v) provision of a bicycle parking store comprising 32 no. cycle parking spaces to the south-west of the proposed apartment block at surface level; provision of new pedestrian, cyclist and vehicular infrastructure, accesses and connections throughout the site; (vi) construction of 1 no. vehicular access off the previously approved (Reg. Ref. 21/1400) access road to the west from Brooklands Estate and the construction of 1 no. vehicular access to the south off Brooklands Housing Estate (vii) construction of a linear/neighbourhood park adjacent to the River Liffey to the east. This application does not i