Kildare County Council grants permission for 80-home scheme at Boycetown, Kilcock, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 102 housing scheme applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,619 nationally. Of the 3,048 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 8 October 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.

80 no. residential units, consisting of 68 no. houses and 12 no. duplex apartments, to be provided as follows: 19 no. 2 bed two storey mid & end-terrace houses (House Type T1c); 7 no. 3 bed two storey end-terrace houses (House Type 6c); 9 no. 3 bed two storey mid-terrace houses (House Type R2c-Mid); 12 no. 3 bed two storey semi-detached houses (House Type N1); 12 no. 4 bed two storey semi-detached houses (House Type O1); 9 no. 3 bed two storey end-terrace houses (House Type R2c-End); 12 no. 1 bed duplex apartments (Types 4H1a & 4H1c) provided within 6 no. 2 storey duplex buildings, all provided with private balconies, terraces, or gardens. A total of 138 no. surface car parking spaces are proposed to serve the residential units and visitor parking. A total of 60 no. secure long-stay cycle parking spaces and 6 no. short-stay cycle parking spaces is proposed for residents. 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