€17m residential development approved for this Kildare town

A planning application for 93 residential units in Kilcock has been approved by Kildare County Council.

According to Construction Information Services (CIS), Mountkerry Ventures Limited applied to the local authority for planning permission on November 28 last for Phase 1 development at Boycetown, Kilcock, Co Kildare.

This was to consist of 93 residential units, made up of: 55 houses, 16 duplex apartments, and 22 apartments.

These are to be provided as follows: 21 3-bed two-storey mid-terrace houses; 15 3-bed two-storey end-terrace houses; 11 3-bed two-storey end-terrace houses; 6 3-bed two-storey semi-detached houses; 2 4-bed two storey semi-detached houses; 16 1-bed duplex apartments provided within 4 2-storey duplex buildings; 22 apartments (10 1-bed and 12 2-bed) located within a part 4 storey / part 5 storey apartment block, all provided with private balconies, terraces, or gardens.

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Also planned is a childcare facility (with a Gross Floor Area of 393 sq.m), with associated play area, at ground floor level of the apartment block.

The plans also provide for a total of 172 surface car parking spaces to serve the residential units, visitor parking and the childcare facility.

The development includes cycle paths, footpaths, and internal roads, with proposed infrastructure and access points provided up to the application site boundary to facilitate potential future connections to adjoining lands.

Also planned is provision of new vehicular accesses off the R148 and the R158, a new footpath along the R148, and the provision of a link street from the R158 to the boundary of the adjoining Bawnogue Park residential development to the south east of the subject site.

The development includes foul and surface water drainage, including attenuation system, bin stores, public and communal open space, public lighting, landscaping and boundary treatment works, services and all associated and ancillary site works and development.

The architect for the project is John Fleming Architects.