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(to the north of Brooklands Housing Estate and to the west of the River Liffey). The development consist of: (i) construction of a residential development comprising a mix of house units, apartment and maisonette units providing for a total of 51 no. residential units including; (a) 35 no. house units (6 no. two bedroom terraced houses, 17 no. three-bedroom houses (1 no. detached three bedroom house, 4 no. semi detached three bedroom houses and 12 No. terraced three bedroom houses and 12 no. four bedroom semi-detached houses) ranging in height from 2-3 storeys; (b) 8 no. maisonettes units (4 no. two bedroom maisonette units and 4 no. 1 bedroom maisonette units) comprised within 2 no. 2-storey buildings; and (c) 1 no. three storey flat roof, apartment block comprising 8 no. two bedroom apartments. Private amenity space will be provided the proposed house units in the form of rear private gardens with the maisonette units being served by designated areas of private amenity space to the rear at ground floor level and the proposed apartment units being served by private balconies/terraces. (ii) provision of a creche (c.485.76sq.m) at ground floor level of the proposed apartment block with an associated outdoor space; (iii) provision of a total of 126 no. car parking spaces (inclusive of 2 no. accessible parking spaces), 70 no. of which will serve the proposed house units, 16 no. of which will serve the proposed maisonette units (inclusive of 4 no. visitor parking spaces) 14 no. of which will serve the proposed apartment units (inclusive of 2 no. visitor parking spaces) and 26 no. of which will serve the proposed creche facility; (iv) provision of a 8 no. sheltered bicycle parking stores to serve the proposed maisonette units located within the private amenity space associated with each unit, with 4 no. visitor bicycle parking spaces provided at surface level; (v) provision of a bicycle parking store comprising 32 no. cycle parking spaces to the south-west of the proposed apartment block at surface level; provision of new pedestrian, cyclist and vehicular infrastructure, accesses and connections throughout the site; (vi) construction of 1 no. vehicular access off the previously approved (Reg. Ref. 21/1400) access road to the west from Brooklands Estate and the construction of 1 no. vehicular access to the south off Brooklands Housing Estate (vii) construction of a linear/neighbourhood park adjacent to the River Liffey to the east. This application does not i
Core Planning Reasoning
The proposed development would exceed the housing and population targets for Clane as set out in the Core Strategy of the Kildare County Development Plan 2023-2029, where the 219-unit allocation for the settlement has already been surpassed by existing grants of permission.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The 51-unit proposal, in conjunction with existing permissions totaling 283 units, significantly breaches the Core Strategy housing target of 219 units for Clane.
- The submitted Social Infrastructure Audit (SIA) is considered outdated and fails to adequately demonstrate that the town's existing school and health services have the capacity to absorb the proposed increase in population.
- The development would be inconsistent with Objective CS O1 of the County Development Plan and would undermine the principles of orderly, plan-led sustainable development for the area.