€46m housing development granted planning permission for this Kildare town following appeal

An Coimisiún Pleanála has granted planning permission to Oakway Homes for an LRD housing development on New Abbey Road, Nicholastown, Kilcullen, Co Kildare following appeal.

The Large-scale Residential Development (LRD) will consist of 180 new homes, including 152 houses, 20 duplexes and eight apartments.

The plans also provide for a creche, two medical/healthcare units, offices, a wastewater pumping station and all ancillary development and associated works on lands measuring 6.6 hectares.

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The proposed residential units include:

152 two and three-storey, semi-detached/ terraced houses (85 three-beds and 67 four-beds);

20 duplex over single units (10 one-bed ground floor units with 10 two-bed units);

8 apartments (two-bed units), above a commercial ground floor, over two blocks.

The commercial element will be located at the north end of the site and will consist of three blocks (A, B & C). blocks A & B are three storeys high and will have commercial uses at ground floor and apartments over (type G). Block C will be a four-storey office block.

Also provided will be 369 car parking spaces (including EV charging spaces and disabled parking spaces); 106 cycle parking spaces; public and communal open spaces; hard and soft landscaping, play area, suds features, boundary treatments, waste management areas/bin stores, internal roads, footpaths, cycle lanes and services provision (including pumping station) and all associated site works.

The proposed vehicular and pedestrian access will be via two access points off New Abbey Road, one to the north and one to the east.
A pedestrian and cyclist access is proposed to Sunbury Close.

The proposed development also involves works on lands owned by Kildare County Council (New Abbey Road, R413) relating to traffic calming (0.33 ha) and a new footpath.

The proposed development will involve the demolition of the existing agricultural buildings to the north-west of the site (513.5sqm).

The planning application may be inspected online at the following website: www.newabbeyroadlrd.ie