Appeal lodged against permission for 50-home scheme at Glendine Road, Bonnetsrath, Co. Kilkenny

In context

It is one of 30 housing scheme applications Kilkenny County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,579 nationally. Of the 3,034 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 31 July 2026. 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 development at this site. The development will consist of 50 no. residential units comprising; of a two-storey terrace of 10 no. 2-bedroom duplex units, 32 no. 3-bedroom two-storey semi-detached houses (House Types C & D & D1), 8 no. 4-bedroom two-storey semi-detached houses (House Types B & B1). This application also seeks the provision of a vehicular entrance off Glendine Road, internal roads and footpaths, a stepped pedestrian access point on to Glendine Road, surface carparking, sheltered bicycle parking, public lighting, site landscaping, site boundaries, provision of foul and surface water disposal and all associated site works