98-home scheme proposed at Drakeland Lower, 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 is due to decide by 22 September 2026, 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.

for proposed development of - Construction of 98 No. residential units including 08 No. four bedroom houses, 56 No. three bedroom houses, 16 No. 2 bedroom own-door maisonettes, 08 No. two bedroom apartments, and 10 No. one bedroom apartments, - The development will be provided in a mix of semi-detached & terraced two-storey houses, 02 No. two-storey own-door maisonette buildings, and 01 No. three-storey apartment building. - Provision of 128 on-curtilage car parking spaces and 41 on-street car parking spaces, a total of 169 car parking spaces, - Provision of on-curtilage bicycle spaces to all houses (128 spaces) and a further 80 No. on-site spaces, - Water & Foul services to the development to include a mix of gravity connections and a foul pumping station, and - All other ancillary site development works to facilitate construction, site services & piped infrastructure, public lighting, bin stores, covered bicycle parking, new pedestrian and cycle routes, boundary treatments and hard and soft landscaping.