97-home scheme proposed at Bolton Woods, Callan, 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.

permission for the following development at Bolton, Callan, Co. Kilkenny.. The proposed development will comprise of: -Demolition of 3 No. partially constructed 2-storey houses and existing houses bases, -Construction of 97 No. residential units including 66 No. three-bedroom 2-storey houses, 15 No. two-bedroom 2-storey houses, and 16 No. one bedroom own-door apartments in 4 No. two-storey buildings, -Construction of a single storey creche building with associated car parking (13 car park spaces), -Construction of 2 No. communal bin & bike store buildings, -Provision of 146 on-curtilage car parking spaces and 39 on-street car parking spaces to a total of 185 car parking spaces, -Completion of existing road network and underground services as previously commenced under planning reference 06/405 (now expired), -Provision of vehicular and pedestrian entrance from the neighbouring Roselawn estate at the location previously designated under planning reference 06/405 (now expired), -Provision of a construction access from the R698, and -All other ancillary site development works to facilitate construction, site services & piped infrastructure, public lighting, boundary treatments, and hard and soft landscaping.