Kilkenny County Council grants permission for 53-home scheme at Rath Ullard, Bonnetsrath, Co. Kilkenny

In context

It is one of 26 housing scheme applications Kilkenny County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,638 nationally. Of the 3,067 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 3 November 2023. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Kilkenny County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

53 dwelling units consisting of 11 no. Houses (2 no. house Type C 5 bedroom detached house, 1 no. Type E 4 bedroom semi-detached house, 1 no. Type F four bedroom semi-detached house, 5 no. House Type H- 4 detached bedroom house, 1 no. Type J 3 bedroom semi-detached house, 1 no. Type K 3 bedroom semi-detached house), 24 no. Duplex units (12 no. 3 Bed dwellings & 12 no. 1 Bed Dwellings ), 1 no. 3-storey mixed Use Retail/Apartment building (4 no. 2 bed apartments over ground floor retail / restaurant use) and 1 4-storey apartment building (14 no. 2 bed apartments), 1 No. single storey facilities management building, 1 No. communal refuse storage pavilion, modification of existing roundabout at the entrance of the site to provide a T-junction with a raised table, provision of internal roads and footpaths including associated pedestrian crossing facilities, cycle lanes, surface level car parking, public lighting, landscaping, public open space, boundary treatments, provision of foul and surface water disposal and all associated site works.