Wicklow County Council grants permission for 80-home scheme at Rossana Lower and Newrath, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow

In context

It is one of 113 housing scheme applications Wicklow County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,641 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 29 February 2024. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

proposed 80 No. residential units (64 No. houses and 16 No. duplexes) and childcare facility of 196 sq.m together with all associated site development works including estate roads, footpaths, car parking, bins and storage, boundary treatment, services infrastructure including watermains, foul sewerage, surface water sewerage and on-site attenuation tanks. The proposed development includes for measures to upgrade and realign the Newcastle Road (R761) which will provide for turning lanes at the entrance to the proposed development and Wicklow County Campus (Clermont) and a new uncontrolled pedestrian crossing. A sloped landscaped area located between the existing Clermont demesne wall and the new road realignment is proposed, and a partial demolition of Clermont demesne wall to facilitate the proposed realignment. A new two-way shared pedestrian/ cyclist path is proposed along the western side of the proposed realignment from the site entrance to the roundabout junction at the Rathnew Relief Road. A new surface water open drain is proposed from the proposed development along the western side of the proposed new public footpath/ cycle lane which is then piped further south under the proposed realignment Newcastle Road (R761), and out onto Tighe avenue (R772) where it will drain further south to an existing surface water manhole on Main Street. Watermain and foul sewerage connections are proposed into the existing public mains in the vicinity. The proposed foul sewerage will be piped under the Newcastle Road (R761) up to the existing public sewer on Tighe Avenue (R772)