53-home scheme proposed at Mount Usher View, Main Street Ashford, 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.

proposed Modifications to Mix-use development that was previously granted under substitute consent application, permitted under (ABP-312283-21) (Planning Ref. No. 081704) consisting of 24 residential units, 1 Retail space. The Mix-use development will now include 2 no. retail units and 1 community library and 53 no. residential units in total (i.e. 38 no. residential units in 3 no. Blocks A, B, B1 and As-granted 15 no. residential units in Block C, D & E).The proposed modifications include: The proposed modifications include: Demolition of the existing partly constructed built structures (indicated as Block A and B in as-granted); NEW BLOCK A (4 STOREY): Consisting of 1 no. commercial retail unit on the lower ground floor, 1 no. commercial retail unit and 1 no. community library on the Upper Ground Floor and 8 no.1 bed residential units over the first, second floors over podium. NEW BLOCK B (4 STOREY): Consisting of 24 residential units (8 no. 1 beds, 8 no. 2 bed Apartments, 8 no. 3 bed duplex apartments) at the upper ground level, first, second and third floors over podium. NEW Block B1 (4 STOREY) consisting of 6 no. residential units (2 no. 1 beds, 2 no. 2 bed Apartments, 2 no. 3 bed duplex apartments) on the upper ground level, first, second and third floors over podium. All Accessed from street level and at podium level; With associated under croft carparking at lower ground level, surface car parking, off streetcar parking, loading bay for deliveries to front of commercial unit; Associated ancillary site works with services including landscaping, water features and boundary treatments