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PLANNING PERMISSION HAS been granted for a major planning development near the Kildare-Dublin border.
Ardstone Homes will build the 450 homes on a site near the Wonderful Barn monument in Leixlip after utilising the Strategic Housing Development scheme.
SHD planning allows developments of over 100 homes go straight to An Bord Pleanala, speeding up the application process. It was introduced last year in response to the housing shortage.
The delivery of the homes will open up an additional 30 acres of amenity lands around the Wonderful Barn.
Ardstone’s Homes Managing Director, Stephen Cassidy says that working hand-in-hand with Kildare County Council they have achieved a positive example of fast track planning bringing great results to a community:
“We greatly welcome this new legislation which has given us the opportunity to rapidly deliver 450 new homes, each of which has been designed with a huge amount of attention to detail. We have collaborated with planners to create a vibrant and live-able community that at the end of the day our buyers can call home. Many of our customers are first-time buyers – we take pride in building a personal relationship to understand their needs.
“We are also keen to open up the amazing amenity of the Wonderful Barn and surrounding lands to the community.”
The company says that the homes will launch in 2019.
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It’s going to destroy leixlip.
Growing up there before intel and Hewlett Packard we had plenty of open spaces, with this development leixlip will be more like Tallaght.
@Trevor Hayden: the homeless are used to wide open spaces but they prefer to be enclosed within safe and warm walls.
@Michael Lang: You can guarantee Michael the homeless will not be able to come up with the 350k-400k price tags these pads will be going for.
@Trevor Hayden: I’d say Leixlip was a great place before those pesky employers came along.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Leixlip has lost Hewlett Packard Neal, these houses /apartments are being built beside Hewlett Packard, there’s progress, laying off approx 1500 staff and building houses beside the derelict site that people cannot afford.
@Trevor Hayden: Such a backwards and selfish way of thinking..
@Trevor Hayden: not directly but when overall supply is increased, space is opened up at the bottom end of the market.
In breaking news, experts agree that Ireland needs more housing in areas within commuting distance of Dublin.
@Tom Sawyer: The Wonderful Barn in leixlip Tom is a beautiful old mill steeped in history, now it’s going to be surrounded by kids who could possibly do damage to it, all for the sake of developers profit.
I believe our historical buildings throughout Ireland should be protected, is that wrong?
@Michael Lang: You honestly reckon those houses will go to the homeless? Seriously..bless :)
@Trevor Hayden:
Nothing wrong with tallaght at all Trevor,
Iv lived here with my children for 18 years now.
Never had any trouble here, loads of good schools, kids getting on just fine, eldest just finished his leaving, plenty of green space, Dublin mountains just a walk away, shopping centre, luas, IT, hospital, easy commute to any where in Leinster, no more than 1hr away.
Plenty of employment for young and old.
NIMBYism is alive and well in your ne k of the woods.
@Stephen Maher: Not critical of Tallaght, it’s education or any of it’s people Stephen, but its an absolute sprawl, leixlip always had a old country feel now it’s turning into a sprawl aswell.
There needs to be more consideration for infrastructure, Tallaght is an absolute nightmare where traffic is concerned, leixlip is not much better but this will make it 10 times worse.
@Trevor Hayden: yes…let’s build the houses further away from Dublin and create more pollution commuting …that will be wonderful for the environment also
@Trevor Hayden: The wonderful barn is a crumbling old wreck beside another crumbling old wreck where kids frequently go to drink because it’s miles away from anything.
That said, the green space around it is nice, and a good protion of it is protected land so there’s that.
To be honest I’m more concerned with the total lack of civil engineering going on. The town centre is on the edge of town and the further you get the fewer the amenities. Suren houses are great, but how about a pool, a hotel, a gym, a restraunt or two, a playground, a few shops other than a random spar here or there.
@Trevor Hayden: try to adjust with changing time.
@Michael Lang: Ah Mick!
I see you are now reduced to arguing with a bunch of Nimby loolahs!
They appear to have missed the news about the chronic accommodation situation.
@Trevor Hayden: the pesky kids are in there every weekend destroying it! It’s a well known local spot!
@Trevor Hayden: There’s a housing crisis, the government needs to build more homes! Just not in my back yard, build them somewhere else.
@Guy Incognito: I no longer live in leixlip but know of the traffic congestion that already exists.
@Trevor Hayden:
Tallaght is the olxest village in soutb Dublin with recards dating back to 800s, but people move in and modern loving takes over. If we want to live in or near and work in big cities we need housing.
The mistakes of buimding thousands of houses in the wilderness with no transport, shops or employment wont happen again. Modern planning doesnt allow it.
@Stephen Maher:
Sorry for the text speak. Must review before posting in the future.
Has someone finally copped that increasing supply to meet demand will keep property prices somewhat level! Lets hope there are more of these popping up around the country and soon!
@Jenny Kelleher: lack of supply has been known about for some time but lack of available finance to developers, lack of developers willing to take risks, lack of skilled workers and collapse of wet skills (IE plasters)apprentices has not been highlighted.
@Jenny Kelleher: somewhat level is well beyond the reach of most. Somewhat.
@Michael Duckster: Finance has been available for the last year or two at least to developers, as for the skills needed to build homes, this might entice a lot of Irish emigrants back after having to stay away for so long! We had the skills 10 years ago, I’m sure the have not simply been forgotten!
I very much doubt that these will fall into the “affordable” bracket…
Fast tracking? I look forward to finding out they ignored environmental reports and they turn out to be built on a flood plain or something similarly bad but it was ignored due to being rushed.
Finally a bit of the red tape put of the way lets hope we see some more of this
@Is Mise jay: There all ready has been, in Cork a few weeks ago, I think it was O’Flynn the builder in that case
Releasing 20 houses per phase no doubt.
@Paul Keane: This is not good news for a miserable git like you
@Robert Harris: Top man, Robert. I was unaware that realism constitutes for being miserable. Consider me educated.
Wonder what the commute will be like to Dublin for the new dwellers.
@Deborah Behan: Wonder if there are any jobs locally like in Intel,employing what 4000 /6000 ,worked there myself in 2003, when they were building the Fab 4 project ,3000 construction workers ,you see, not all jobs are in Dublin
@Deborah Behan: about 30mins by train or 45mins on dublin bus
@Joe Jackson:…by plane
@Joe Jackson: some walk to the train from the wonderful barn!
The noise from the M4 is horrific.
This is a unique building and should be left as a barn, in a field. Heritage structures like this should be cherished
@Michelle Keeley: It is being left in a field.
Will I start queuing now?
@Barney r:
Ah you can wait until the morning
That’ll do great things for the homeless.
@Niall Sheridan: Homelessness will not be solved overnight but increasing our housing stock might help towards reducing it! Try and see the positive in this one
@Jenny Kelleher: excellent and rational point.
@Niall Sheridan: Trickle down effect. More houses is never bad.
Great news
I’m from Leixlip. I live in the estate looking at this area. The barn is direct view from my kitchen. This needs to be done. Too many people who have mortgages holding up progress and keeping me here saving for a house. Hoping to buy one of these. Will be a park surrounding the barn site. Will be nice.
I’m from Leixlip. I live in the estate looking at this area. The barn is direct view from my kitchen. This needs to be done. Too many people who have mortgages holding up progress and keeping me here saving for a house. Hoping to buy one of these. Will be a park surrounding the barn site. Will be nice.
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