Plan for new houses in Kildare is rejected

A planning application to build seven houses at a site on the outskirts of Naas has been turned down by the planning appeals board.

Tetrarch Property Investments, which has previously been associated with Millennium Park in Naas, wanted to build seven detached homes - six houses with four bedrooms and one five bedroom dwellings - on a six acre site at Fishery Lane.

The site has the  Morell river separating it from the Maudlins Industrial Estate.

The proposal was rejected by Kildare County Council in September 2021.

KCC refused permission because the plan was considered “an incongruous form of suburban housing development” and was contrary to the Naas town development plan.

The council also believed that the plan failed the “justification test for building on a floodplain.”

An Bord Pleanála rejected the appeal commenting that the development would be contrary to the zoning designation and would “injure the residential amenities and character of the area “by way of its low density and suburban layout.”

ABP also had a  concern about the level of intervention required to mitigate the flood risk.

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