55-home scheme proposed at Pollrone Road, Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny

In context

It is one of 25 housing scheme applications Kilkenny 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 five-week window for public submissions has closed. The council normally decides within eight weeks of the application being lodged, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

The development description, as lodged

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

of a mixed residential development of of 55 no. dwelling units. The development will comprise the proposed erection of: 8 No. two-storey, 4-bedroom semi-detached dwellings; 13 No. two-storey, 3-bedroom terraced dwellings; 4 No. two-storey, 2-bedroom terraced dwellings; 10 No. two-storey, 3-bedroom semi-detached units, and; 2 No. two-storey detached apartment buildings, comprising a combined 8 No. 2-bedroom apartment units and 12 No. 1-bedroom apartment units. Together with allocation of a GAA playing pitch to be transferred to the adjoining Scoil Mhuire National School Junior Campus. All associated site development works, parking spaces, vehicular access, and ancillary landscaping/communal public open spaces, with connections to existing local public mains services and all other associated site works at Pollrone Road, Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny.