20184: Nursing care home and residential development comprising (a) nursing care home (4 no storeys of 120 no bedspaces (c7428 sqm) along with 60 no car parking spaces (at undercroft and basement level c2477 sqm), open space and all associated residential care facilities (b) construction of 77 no dwellings comprising 29 no 2 storey houses (10 no 2 bedroom houses (house type E) and 19 no 3 bedroom houses (house types C, D & F), and 48 no apartments / duplex apartments as follows: Block A & D, 3 storeys comprising 30 no apartments (15 no 2 bedroom apartments in each building), blocks B & C, 3 storeys comprising 12 no apartments (2 no 2 bedroom apartments and 4 no 3 bedroom apartments in each building), blocks E & F, 3 storeys comprising 6 apartments (3 no 2 bedroom apartments in each building), all apartment units to have balcony or terrace, (c) hard and soft landscaping (including public lighting) and open space (boundary treatment), communal open space for duplex apartments, regarding / reprofiling of site where required along with bicycle / bin stores and 100 no car parking spaces for dwellings (d) vehicular access from the west (from Blessington Inner Relief Road (BIRR) and south west along link road between the BIRR and Main Street with pedestrian accesses as well as works to roundabout and provision of road crossings (e) surface water attenuation measures and underground attenuation systems as well as connection to water supply, drainage, (f) all ancillary site development / construction works
Blessington Demesne, Blessington, Co. Wicklow
DecisionConditional grant
Decided08 October 2020
Application typePERMISSION
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Site
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Source documents
Original council portal records and source PDFs where available.- Application fileApplication file on www.eplanning.ieSource portal
- Chief Executives OrderSource: wicklowcoco.eplanning.ie / 5e0d111d-3d1d-4604-a8f5-b69f3a6e7f02.pdf / Document 358027Source PDF
- Planners ReportSource: wicklowcoco.eplanning.ie / 28789ed0-0671-4bea-9091-855825a97554.pdf / Document 358031Source PDF
- Planners ReportSource: wicklowcoco.eplanning.ie / D74a5805-95af-44d6-9b5d-10823f931522.pdf / Document 358032Source PDF
- Planners ReportSource: wicklowcoco.eplanning.ie / B9b7b8e5-54c1-4c70-b9fa-b6671303b969.pdf / Document 358033Source PDF
- F I Request LetterSource: wicklowcoco.eplanning.ie / 0b22862a-5679-4e30-a530-6b287a73cbc0.pdf / Document 341670Source PDF
Nearby precedent
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