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Kildare County Council refuses permission for 88-home scheme at Oak Church, Bishopsland Kildare, Co. Kildare
5 March 2025 · Permission.ie Planning Wire · from the Kildare County Council planning register · published 1 September 2026
Kildare County Council refused permission on 5 March 2025 for an 88-home scheme at Oak Church, Bishopsland Kildare, an application first lodged on 14 January 2025.
Key facts
- Reference
- 255
- Planning authority
- Kildare County Council
- Location
- Oak Church, Dunmurry Road / Southern internal link road, Bishopsland Kildare
- Received
- 14 January 2025
- Application type
- EXTENSION OF DURATION
- Site area
- 6.5 hectares
- Homes
- 88
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- REFUSED
- Decision date
- 5 March 2025
In context
It is one of 61 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 nationally. Of the 3,032 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 5 March 2025. 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 approved 88 apartments in 2 No. 3 and 4 storey blocks including all ancillary site development works, car parking, bin and bicycle stores and public / communal open spaces (Reg. Ref. 18/1027 known as Sector 3)
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Source: Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, "Kildare County Council refuses permission for 88-home scheme at Oak Church, Bishopsland Kildare, Co. Kildare", 5 March 2025. https://www.permission.ie/news/kildare-county-council/255
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/kildare-county-council/255">Kildare County Council refuses permission for 88-home scheme at Oak Church, Bishopsland Kildare, Co. Kildare</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 5 March 2025.</p>
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