Strategic housing development for a mixed use, residential and employment proposal comprising the following…

Application details

Planning reference

Sh201904

Council

Wicklow County Council

Proposal description

Strategic housing development for a mixed use, residential and employment proposal comprising the following: residential development of 354 no units including: 124 no 2 storey houses (comprising 13 no 2 bed, 93 no 3 bed and 18 no 4 bed), 2 no apartment blocks (5-6 storeys in height), comprising 170 no units (36 no 1 bed, 123 no 2 bed and 11 no 3 bed). The apartment development will include a concierge, security room and communal amenity room. 60 no duplex apartments (30 no 2 bed and 30 no 3 bed), all residential units provided with private garden / balcony / terrace space to standard and facing north / south / east / west. Provision of public and communal open spaces, car parking (456 no spaces) and cycle parking (388 no spaces). An employment development comprising a 2 storey community enterprise building (1356 sqm) and a 2 storey office building (1376 sqm), 91 no parking spaces and 108 no bicycle spaces, the relocation of the existing temporary bus parking facility to the western side of the unnamed local road leading to Shoreline Sports Park, accesses to the development from the unnamed local road and via Seabourne apartment development to the north, provision of pedestrian connections including across 774 / L1221 to Charlesland Neighbourhood Centre, all associated site development works, drainage and infrastructural works, servicing (including 2 no substations, bin stores), landscaping, open spaces and boundary treatment works. The application contains a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the relevant development plan (Wicklow County Development Plan 2016-2022) and local area plan (Greystones - Delgany and Kilcoole Local Area Plan 2013 - 2019). The application contains a statement indicating why permission should be granted for the proposed development, having regard to a consideration specified in section 37(2)(b) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, notwithstanding that the proposed development materially contravenes a relevant development plan or local area plan other than in relation to the zoning of the land. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared in respect of the proposed development

Location / address

Glenheron C, Greystones, Co. Wicklow

Received / registered

29 Oct 2019

Council decision

CONDITIONAL

Council decision date

15 Jan 2020

Final grant date

19 Feb 2020