Oakway Homes have been granted planning permission for the Large Residential Development at New Abbey Road,
writes Brian Byrne. The permission for the 180 homes development is subject to 51 conditions.
The original development has been revised following a request for further information by the planners. The revisions include the design of two new access/exit points as potential connection points for the proposed Kilcullen Relief Road, a change of six homes from 4-bed to 3-bed, the reduction of a 4-storey block to three storeys, colour changes to brickwork and the use of natural stone at entrance walls on New Abbey Road.
There are also upgrades to boundary treatments along active travel routes, and details of pedestrian crossings, bus stops, public seating and bicycle parking, and the relocation of a proposed pumping station.
There had been 114 public submissions to the original planning application, and more than 80 further ones related to the responses to the RFI.
Controversial permeability links are to go ahead, according to the grant of permission, with the developer required to provide, in advance of commencement, detailed drawings for these. The condition provides for a 3-metre-wide combined footpath-cycle path and other works, and the developer must pay the cost of this work on existing roads. Permeability links must be completed in advance of any occupation of the development.
A €1.4 million development levy is being imposed for the development, and in addition the developer has to pay a special levy of €1.5 million towards the design and cost of the proposed relief road to the R448.
The developer also has to provide a design for upgrading of the signalised crossroads R448/R413 junction. Two 'Toucan' pedestrian and bicycle crossings are to be built across the R448 to link with the proposed new cycle track detailed in the upgrade to Cross and Passion College.
Another condition requires that a childcare facility will be provided at an early stage in the development.
Anyone wishing to appeal the grant of permission to An Bord Pleanala must do so within four weeks of the date of grant, 20th May 2025.
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