Kildare County Council grants permission for 74-home scheme at Shanrath (Townparks TD), Athy, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 61 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 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 13 October 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 (a) The provision of a total of 96no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings which will consist of the following unit mix: 8no. 4-bed dwellings, 74no. 3-bed dwellings, and 14no. 2-bed dwellings, (b) Provision for a single story creche with associated external play areas, car parking area and new vehicle entrance onto the existing cul-de-sac local road, (c) Provision of new internal roadways and footpaths by extension of the existing residential access road from within the existing Shanrath Housing Estate, with associated works to facilitate vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access and car parking; (d) Provision of a shared footpath and cycle lane connection with the existing shared footpath and cycle lane along the Athy Distributor Route (N78) and previously approved adjacent housing development (Planning Reference 24/60683); (e) Provision of open space areas to include all hard and soft landscape works, planting and boundary treatments; (f) All other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground including; surface water drainage system, foul sewerage network including connection to previously approved foul pumping station (Planning Reference 24/61174), public lighting and all ancillary site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a reduction of the site size, a redesign of the road and housing layouts of the development, an increase in the number of residential units from 96 to 98, changes to residential unit types to incorporate five three-storey elements with 10 no. two-bedroom ground floor apartments with 10 no. three-bedroom duplex units over, changes to boundary treatments, an additional access point to the Athy Distributor Road and all associated site works