99-home scheme proposed at Ballybeg, Rathnew, 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 is due to decide by 4 September 2025, 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.

99 dwellings (8 no.1 bedroom, 18 no. 2 bedroom, 55 no. 3 bedroom and 18 no. 4 bedroom) and a creche (271 sq. m). The development includes the provision of services, visitor bicycle parking, landscaping proposals (including SUDS), provision of access and link roads, ancillary site development works and a new vehicular entrance to the R772. All on a site of 4.73 hectares