Stepping Stones Special School, Moyglare Road, Maynooth
Planning application 2560037
DecisionConditional grant
Decided14 March 2025
Application typePERMISSION
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Nearby precedent
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- 17379A new 3 storey replacement National school building with 24 classrooms including Special Needs Unit with associated car parking, bicycle parking, bus dropoff, 3 no Ball courts, existing astro pitch, Sensory Garden, bin compound and site boundary treatment with landscaping to include external perimeter pavement and road improvement works in conjunction with the Maynooth town corridor study, The total floor area of the new school will be 4748m2 / 0.1 km away / 01 August 2017Granted
- 24602251) Construction of a three storey residential extension to the existing rectory, the extension will provide 5no. rectory bedrooms and 1no. rectory foyer space. 2) Connection to existing services 3) All associated site works / 0.1 km away / 07 May 2024Granted
- 212161. Demolition of existing boiler house and overhead walkway canopy located adjacent to the existing student accommodation blocks. 2. Construction of a three storey building consisting 125 student bedroom accommodations, seminar rooms, day spaces, care takers/security office, laundry, and plant rooms, totaling 3975sq.m and identified as Block 1 on the accompany drawings. 3. Construction of a three storey building consisting 41 student bedroom accommodations, seminar rooms, day spaces, managers office, laundry, and plant rooms, totaling 1506sq.m and identified as Block 2 on the accompany drawings. 4. Creation of an internal one-way traffic system with separate vehicular entrance and exit points at existing accesses into site. 5. Creation of pedestrian plaza between existing and proposed accommodation blocks, consisting of hard and soft landscaping proposals including green amenity areas. 6. All public lighting. 7. Connection to the adjoining public watermains, public foul sewer network and adjoining public storm water network including the installation of storm water attenuation tanks. 8. Provision of 10 car parking spaces and 195 bicycle parking spaces. 9. Provision of a ESB Sub-Station and waste collection/storage area. 10. Provision of an internal footpath network to student accommodation that will connect to the existing public footpath on Moyglare Road. 11. All ancillary site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the complete revision of the elevational treatment of Block 2 and all associated works / 0.1 km away / 18 October 2021Granted
- 19772The erection of a single storey prefabricated building consisting of 4 No. general classrooms and 2 No. support rooms, new ramped and stepped approaches, to be located to the south east corner of the applicant site, together with all associated siteworks / 0.1 km away / 28 August 2019Granted
- 22931Sought for the construction of a two number enclosed fire escape stairwells to existing student accommodation blocks, one to each block, including changes to the elevations and for all ancillary site works / 0.1 km away / 15 September 2022Granted
- 17837Change of use of Unit 4 from retail use to café/restaurant use; internal alterations to the unit; alterations to existing façade; the erection of associated signage to the unit’s façade; provision of associated mall seating area to the front of the unit; and all associated works necessary to facilitate the development / 0.2 km away / 07 November 2017Granted
- 2560664For a Large-scale Residential Development (LRD) consisting of modifications to a previously approved Strategic Housing Development permitted by An Bod Pleanála under Reg. Ref. 301230-18, as amended by KCC Reg. Ref. 20/791 and extended by KCC Reg. Ref. 22/1469, at this site in the southern section of the overall permitted SHD lands located to the south of Lyreen Avenue, east of the Moyglare Road and to the north and east of the ‘Divine World Missionaries’ with an overall site area of c.1.87 hectares within the townland of Mariavilla, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. The proposed development relates to modifications to the permitted student accommodation buildings and will consist of the following amendments: i. The reconfiguration of the ground floor in Block A to provide 17 no. student bedrooms (1 no. accessible and 16 no. single bedrooms) in 3 no. clusters in place of the permitted gym; ii. Provision of 12 no. single accessible bedrooms across Blocks B, C, D and E to replace permitted 24 no. single-bedrooms; iii. Provision of 1 no. accessible bedroom on Ground Floor level of Block A2; iv. The relocation of the common room from first-floor level in Block A to ground floor level to facilitate the provision of 1 no. accessible student bedroom; v. The relocation of the external terrace from first-floor level to ground floor level in Block A; vi. The relocation of a permitted student amenity area from the rear of the block to the front of block at ground floor level in Block A; vii. The reconfiguration of the approved creche area in Block A1 to accommodate an additional fire escape; viii. Associated minor amendments to the permitted northern, southern, eastern and western elevations of Block A to accommodate internal changes; and, ix. Associated amendments to the floor areas to include the provision of additional plant space required to facilitate the proposed amendments and all associated site development works. Overall, the proposed amendments will result in a net increase in 5 no. bedspaces of student accommodation bedrooms to be provided from 483 to 488. There are no changes to the permitted roads, open space areas or any other amendments to the development as approved by An Bord Pleanála under Reg. Ref. 301230-18. A dedicated website has been set up for the LRD application which can be viewed at: www.mariavilla4lrdamendment1.com / 0.2 km away / 13 October 2025Granted