92-home scheme proposed at Knightswood, Williamstown, Co. Waterford

In context

It is one of 85 housing scheme applications Waterford City and 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 Waterford City and County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

The development will consist of Phase 4 of the Knightswood Estate, comprising 92 no. residential units, consisting of: • 1 no. four-bedroom semi-detached dwelling, Type A • 1 no. four-bedroom semi-detached dwelling, Type B • 6 no. three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, Type C • 8 no. three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, Type J • 4 no. four-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, Type L • 2 no. three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, Type F • 2 no. three-bedroom semi-detached dwellings, Type G • 16 no. two-bedroom duplex units in 4 no. two-storey duplex blocks, each consisting of 4 no. two-bedroom duplex units • Apartment Block A, a 4-storey building containing 28 no. apartment units, comprising 7 no. one-bedroom apartments and 21 no. two-bedroom apartments, together with a 75no. child crèche at ground floor level • Apartment Block B, a 4-storey building containing 24 no. apartment units, comprising 4 no. one-bedroom apartments and 20 no. two-bedroom apartments The development will also consist of vehicular and pedestrian connections to previous phases of the development, a pedestrian link to the existing residential development to the north of the application site, internal roads and footpaths, public open space, communal amenity space, site landscaping, parking provision, refuse and bicycle storage, provision of foul and surface water connections, and all associated site works.