Kildare County Council grants permission for 93-home scheme at Boycetown Kilcock Co. Kildare., Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 61 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,568 nationally. Of the 3,037 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 2 June 2026. 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.

The proposed Phase 1 development will consist of: o 93 no. residential units, consisting of 55 no. houses, 16 no. duplex apartments, and 22 no. apartments, to be provided as follows: 21 no. 3 bed two storey mid-terrace houses House Type R2c-Mid); 15 no. 3 bed two storey end-terrace houses (House Type R2c-End); 11 no. 3 bed two storey end-terrace houses (House Type 6c); 6 no. 3 bed two storey semi-detached houses (House Type N1); 2 no. 4 bed two storey semi-detached houses (House Type O1); 16 no. 1 bed duplex apartments (Types 4H1a & 4H1b) provided within 4 no. two storey duplex buildings; 22 no. apartments (10 no. 1 bed and 12 no. 2 bed) located within a part 4 no. storey / part 5 no. storey apartment block, all provided with private balconies, terraces, or gardens. A childcare facility (with a Gross Floor Area of 393 sq.m), with associated play area, at ground floor level of the apartment block; A total of 172 no. surface car parking spaces are proposed to serve the residential units, visitor parking and the childcare facility. A total of 90 no. secure long-stay cycle parking spaces are proposed for residents and the childcare facility, together with 27 no. short-stay/visitor cycle parking spaces. The development includes cycle paths, footpaths, and internal roads, with proposed infrastructure and access points provided up to the application site boundary to facilitate potential future connections to adjoining lands; Provision of new vehicular accesses off the R148 and the R158, a new footpath along the R148, and the provision of a link street from the R158 to the boundary of the adjoining Bawnogue Park residential development to the south east of the subject site; The development includes foul and surface water drainage, including attenuation system, bin stores, public and communal open space, public lighting, landscaping and boundary treatment works, services and all associated and ancillary site works and development. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Amendments to Phase 1 house, duplex apartment and apartment types, including the introduction of a new three-storey end-of-terrace house (House Type X) and the replacement of Duplex Type 4H1 with revised Types 4H1c and 4H1d. Amendments to the apartment building include a further setback at fourth-floor level, internal reconfiguration of floorplans including the omission of the 2-bed 3-person apartment type, enhanced façade articulation, and revisions to material treatment