Kildare County Council grants permission for 126-home scheme at Droichead Nua (Newbridge), Old Connell Naas Road, 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 28 November 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 phase 1 of a 2 phase residential development for some 126 no dwellings on a wider site are of c4ha. The phase 1 will consist of A) The construction of 40 no. residential dwellings and a creche comprising: 32 no. houses (26 no. 3 bedroom dwellings [2 storey] and 6 no. 4 bedroom houses [3 storey]) and 8 no. apartments/duplex apartments comprising 1 no. 2 bedroom apartment and 1 no. 3 bedroom duplex apartment in a separate end of terrace (3 storey) arrangement in 4 locations throughout the site (with apartments/duplex units to include balcony or terrace/private amenity space); B) Vehicular/pedestrian and cyclist access from the Naas Road along with upgrades to the existing vehicular, pedestrian, cyclist and public transport infrastructure along the Naas Road including; the installation of new segregated cycle lanes either side of the Naas Road; a relocated bus stop location at the northern section of the Naas Road and upgraded bus stop at the southern section; a toucan pedestrian crossing across the Naas Road, revised carriageway, and enhanced pedestrian pathways; C) The provision of 62 no. surface resident car parking spaces (including visitor and creche) as well as bicycle storage for apartments; internal road and shared surface networks including pedestrian and cycle paths; D) A 2 storey creche of c. 222 sq. m (with associated play area and parking); E) Provision of c. 0.57 ha of public open space including proposed central square, as well as linear parkways as well as outdoor play areas, and landscaped planting; F) Provision of foul and surface water drainage as well as bin stores; public lighting and all associated landscaping and boundary treatment works, site development and infrastructural works, ESB substations, and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development (the proposed development will provide all roads, services [foul & attenuation] and landscaping for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 sites) on this 2.84 ha site