Kildare County Council grants permission for 91-home scheme at Tomard, Athy, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 61 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,557 nationally. Of the 3,030 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% 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 6 December 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.

Development will consist of 50 no. houses, on a site measuring circa 1.85 hectares, located in the townland of Tomard, south of the Cluain Bhearu residential development , east of the Monasterevin Road / Rathstewart Road (R417) . The proposed development is comprised of 19. no. 4 bedroom and 31 no. 3 bedroom 2 storey, detached, semi-detached and terraced houses. Access to the proposed development will be from the adjoining Cois Bhearu to the North. The proposed development includes for all associated site development works, car parking, open spaces, hard and soft landscaping etc, ESB substation, and demolition of all structures on site. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of 38 no. houses, on a site measuring circa 1.58 hectares. The proposed development is comprised of 31 no. 3 bedroom and 6 no. 1 bedroom, 1 & 2 storey, detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, and 1 no. 2 bedroom masionette. The existing ‘‘Miller’s House’’ is to be retained and renovated into the proposed 2 bedroom dwelling. Access to the proposed development will be from the adjoining Cois Bhearú to the north. The proposed development includes for all included site development works, car parking, open spaces, hard & soft landscaping etc., ESB substation, demolition of the mill structure on site, and extension and upgrade of footpath to cycle path to the north-west at Corráin Bhearú to connect to path on Monasterevin Road / Rathstewart Road (R417). The applicant has also submitted a concurrent application to the Planning Authority for a residential development of 91 no. dwellings and a creche on the adjoining lands to the immediate north under planning Ref. 24/112