233-home scheme proposed at A Site of 6.05, Co. Wicklow

In context

It is one of 107 housing scheme applications Wicklow County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,557 nationally. Of the 3,030 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 Wicklow County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

construction of a mixed-use development (LRD) with a gross floor area of 23,219.1 square metres and ranging in height from 1 No. to 5 No. storeys that includes: 233 No. residential dwellings (24 No. 1-bed, 103 No. 2-bed, 94 No. 3-bed and 12 No. 4-bed), of which 185 No. are houses (103 No. 2-bed, 70 No. 3-bed and 12 No. 4-bed) and 48 No. are apartments/duplexes (24 No. 1-bed and 24 No. 3-bed); 36 No. ‘later living’ dwellings (12 No. 1-bed and 24 No. 2-bed), of which 12 No. are houses (all 2-bed) and 24 No. are apartments (12 No. 1-bed and 12 No. 2-bed); a medical centre (224 sq m); a pharmacy (115 sq m); and a café (60 sq m). The development also comprises: 2 No. multi-modal entrances/exits with junctions at Blessington Inner Relief Road to the north-west and the local street to the south-west; a new pedestrian/cycle crossing to the south-east at the local street; upgrades to the Blessington Inner Relief Road roundabout to the west, including pedestrian/cycle crossings; new pedestrian/cycle crossing at Blessington Inner Relief Road to the north-west; 341 No. car parking space; cycle parking; hard and soft landscaping including public open space, communal amenity space and private amenity space (as gardens, balconies and terraces facing all directions); boundary treatments; 3 No. sub-stations; bin stores; public lighting; PV arrays atop all dwellings; PV array, lift overrun and plant atop the 5-storey mixed-use building; and all associated works above and below ground