Duneany & Rathmuck, Co. Kildare
Retention of a café, a children's train depot, and a car park, alongside permission for a new vehicular entrance.
181585 · Kildare County Council · Lodged 21 December 2018
- Reference
- 181585
- Authority
- Kildare County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- RETENTION
- Received
- 21 December 2018
Summary
AI-generatedRetention is sought for a single-storey café, an adjoining children's train depot, a 60-bay car park, and the removal of an agricultural road. Permission is also sought for a new vehicular access and roadway leading to Kildare Farm Foods.
- Floor area
- 275 m²
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Official record
Development description
- Retention
- An existing single storey café with a total floor space of 218.6m2.2. An adjoining single storey children's depot with a total floor space of 56.7m2; which accommodates for an electrically-powered novelty train
- A surface level car park which contains 60 no. Parking bays, and 1 bus bay and
- The removal of portions of an existing agricultural access road which are not required as part of a proposed new entrance arrangement, as outlined below, with the affected space being returned to grassland. Permission is also sought for future development comprising
- The construction of a proposed new vehicular access onto local road l-3010 and
- A new / altered access roadway which will lead from this public route to kildare farm foods. The new entrance arrangements will replace the longstanding use of county road l-70601 my motorists accessing this overall property. Revised by significant further information consisting of: (a) land uses: a site layout plan which is colour coded to show different uses of various buildings on this overall landholding; (b) traffic: details of traffic movements to and from the overall landholding, of which the application site forms part; (c) parking provision: outline of the parking arrangement which serves this development; (d) staff numbers: details of staff numbers; (e) clarification items: discussion of staff members’ duties, of suppliers, of purchasers and of general arrangements; (f) details of existing effluent treatment arrangements including percolation areas and septic tanks on site. (g) a discussion on the impact of this development on residential amenity
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received21 December 2018
- Further information requested21 February 2019
- Further information received23 August 2019
- Decision due19 September 2019
- Decision issued19 September 2019
- Appeal submitted11 October 2019
- Appeal decided7 January 2020
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