61-home scheme proposed at Ballinalea Ashford, Co. Wicklow

In context

It is one of 108 housing scheme applications Wicklow 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 is due to decide by 12 October 2026, 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 an 87 no. unit residential development comprising 61 no. houses (4 no. detached and semi-detached two bedroom; 43 no. semi-detached, mid-terrace and end-of-terrace three bedroom and 14 no. semi-detached and end-of-terrace four bedroom) and 26 no. apartments (5 no. 1 bed simplex and 5 no. 3 bed duplex in 5 no. three storey blocks and 8 no. 2 bed simplex and 8 no. 3 bed duplex in 1 no. three storey block); a 331.26 sq. m. two storey crèche childcare facility and associated outdoor play area (c. 340 sq. m.); 177 no. car parking spaces (including 3 no. disabled and 8 no. visitor spaces); 48 no. cycle parking spaces for the apartments (24 no. residents’ spaces in 2 no. buildings and 24 no. visitor spaces) and 3 no. visitor spaces for the childcare facility; landscaped public and communal open spaces and boundary treatments; and all other site development works required to facilitate the development including a new road and pedestrian/bicycle access onto the L1096 to the northwest, future vehicular and pedestrian/bicycle access to Ashford Rovers FC, future pedestrian link to ‘Woodview’ housing estate, and ESB substation building and connections to the water supply, surface water and foul water networks via the adjoining Rossana Close/Woodview/Ashleigh estate roads and open space