Kilkenny County Council grants permission for 70-home scheme at Loughmacask, 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 21 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.

for alterations to the previously permitted Planning Register 10/15 (An Bord Pleanala Ref PL10.238542) & Planning Register 23/120 (Extension of Duration) to include the following; 1) Alteration to the location and area of Phase 2 of this development from that previously permitted 2) Revised residential unit layouts to construct 56 No. residential units in Phase 2 Sites A & B in lieu of 55 units in the previously permitted permission (which when taken together with 70 Units in Phase 1 results in no net increase in overall unit numbers) 3) The 56 No. two-storey residential units are to consist of 8 No. four bed detached houses, 4 No. three bed semi-detached houses & 12 No. three bed terraced houses to Site A along with 4 No. four bed detached houses, 2 No. three bed detached houses, 12 No. three bed semi-detached houses, 4 No. two bed terraced houses & 10 No. three bed terraced houses to Site B 4) Alterations to the road layouts serving Site B from streets to home zones and on-curtilage parking 5) Alterations to the road layout to ‘The Old Garden Lane’ from a homezone to a street with associated alterations to the car parking layout 6) Minor alterations to the section of road layout to ‘Park Avenue’ in Site A from that previously permitted 7) Provision of 88 no. on-curtilage residential car parking spaces and 34 no. on-street residential car parking spaces (122 no. residential car parking spaces in total). 8) All associated site & development works. at Loughmacask, Kilkenny,