22968Granted
Patrician Secondary School, Naas Road, Newbridge Co. Kildare.
(1)The phased demolition of existing school buildings, with the exception of the existing dining hall (884.8m2), which is to be retained, (2) to allow the school to remain operational during the construction period, the retention and relocation of the existing temporary school accommodation units and, on completion of construction works, the decommissioning and removal of all temporary school classrooms, (3) the phased construction of a new 3-storey school building with a total gross internal floor area of 9,731.3m2 incorporating 37no. general classrooms, a series of support and specialist classrooms, a special needs unit, a library, multi media rooms, staff rooms and all ancillary accommodation including photovoltaic panels at roof level and separate external storage sheds (190m2) and refuse store (45m2), (4) the construction of a single storey multi-use sports hall (1,107m2), (5) the new school grounds will comprise the construction of 4no. multiuse hard ball courts, outdoor seating and breakout areas, a sensory garden, a tech yard/engineering courtyard, riverside social courts and associated hard and soft landscaping along with the retention of the riverside buffer, (6) the retention of existing vehicular and pedestrian access arrangements from the Naas Road with modifications to the internal roadway and the provision of 85no. car parking spaces (including 4no. disabled parking spaces and 2no. EV charge point spaces) and 170no. bicycle parking stands providing 340no. parking spaces, (7) the proposal also includes new foul and surface water drainage system works incorporating SUDs measures, attenuation, rainwater harvesting, a new substation (28m2), Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) compounds and all other associated site and development worksDecision record indexedDecision20 January 2023View record