Wicklow County Council grants permission for 91-home scheme at Bray, Co. Wicklow

In context

It is one of 107 housing scheme applications Wicklow County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,598 nationally. Of the 3,043 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% 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 21 October 2026. 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.

construction of 91 dwelling units comprising o 42 no. apartments in one 4/5 storey block containing 18 no. 1 bed units, 22 no. 2 bed units and 2 no. 3 bed units; o 28 no. duplex units in 3 no. 3 storey blocks containing 14 no. 2bed units and 14 no. 3 bed units; and o 21 no. 3 storey 4 bed houses in three terraced rows • 120 no. car parking spaces inclusive of 4 no. accessible spaces, 8 no. EV parking spaces, and 2 no. shared car parking spaces • 152 no. bicycle parking spaces • provision of 2,962 sqm of public open space (inclusive of play area), 670 sqm of communal open space and private open space • a vehicular and pedestrian entrance to the site at Church Road, 2 no. pedestrian entrances from Churchlands and 1 no. pedestrian entrance from Vevay Road • all associated site development works, landscaping, boundary treatment, bins stores and services including new watermain connection and foul and surface water drainage, and the provision of 1 no. ESB substation, the proposed development includes works to the stone boundary wall at Church Road, a protected structure (RPS Ref. B41)