61-home scheme proposed at Clover Avenue, Abbeylands, 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.

for the construction of 61No. residential units, comprising 09No. 1-bed apartments, 06No. two-bed apartments, 38No. 3-Bed two-storey terraced houses and 08No. 4-bed two-storey semi-detached houses. The development will include the removal of existing rising walls and floor slabs built as part of an earlier planning permission, the establishment of new vehicular and pedestrian access from the public road (Clover Avenue), along with all associated site development works, landscaping, open spaces, boundary treatments, service provisions, connections to public drains, and all ancillary site works