Kildare County Council grants permission for 69-home scheme at Stonehaven Phase 1B, Blessington Road, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 100 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,641 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 12 March 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.

for development and amendments to a Large-scale Residential Development relating to a previously permitted housing development under An Bord Pleanála Ref. PL09.247411 (Kildare County Council Ref. 15/1060) and as extended under Kildare County Council Ref. 21/777 at lands Stonehaven, Phase 1B, Blessington Road, Naas, County Kildare. The planning application site is confined to c. 2.02 ha within the overall permitted development and will comprise the replacement of 54 no. house units with 69 no. units (47 no. houses and 22 no. apartments), resulting in the provision of 15 no. additional residential units. The proposed amendments will consist of: The replacement of 54 no. houses (permitted as 10 no. 2-bed 2-storey houses [type K], 16 no. 3-bed 2- storey houses [type A2 & A3], 24 no. 4-bed 3-storey houses [type A1 & E2] and 4 no. 5-bed 3-storey houses [type D & E2]) with 47 no. houses (comprising 2 no. 2-bed 2-storey houses [type N], 25 no. 3-bed 2-storey houses [type L] and 20 no. 4-bed 2 to 3-storey houses [type Q, M & M1]), 22 no. apartment/duplex units (comprising 4 no. 1-bed apartment units [type O1 & O2] distributed in 2 no. 2- storey end of terrace blocks, 9 no. 2-bed apartment units [type P1], and 9 no. 3-bed duplex units [type P2 & P3] distributed in 9 no. 3-storey end of terrace blocks). • All house units will be provided with 1 no. in-curtilage car parking space and 10 no. car parking spaces for visitors, bin and bicycle storage. All apartments will be provided with private open space in the form of terraces and rear gardens, open spaces, and car parking (33 no. residents and 6 no. for visitors) and bicycle parking (49 no. residents and 11 no. for visitors). The proposed development will also include minor modifications to the site layout and associated infrastructure comprising revisions to the internal road layout, parking, drainage arrangements, boundary treatments, public lighting, substation, landscaping, open space and all associated development and site work necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Amend condition no. 3 of An Bord Pleanála Ref. PL09.247411 (Kildare County Council Ref. 15/1060) to provide for 15 no. additional units