GrantedHousing estateDecided 19 June 2025

New Road, Castlecomer Road, Kilkenny

Construction of a mixed residential and retail development with 80 homes and an assisted care unit on the former Mart site.

24100 · Kilkenny County Council · Lodged 31 July 2024

Reference: 24100
Authority: Kilkenny County Council
Register status: Appealed
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 31 July 2024
Residential units: 18
Floor area: 2003.93 m²

Summary

AI-generated

The development on a 3.91-hectare site will consist of 17 houses, 17 duplexes, 46 apartments, and 1 assisted care unit across 8 blocks. It includes a new vehicular access off New Road, a new bus stop on Castlecomer Road, a pedestrian plaza, and 90 car parking spaces.

Housing estateretailapartmentsduplexesplaza

Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.

Official record

Development description

For development at a site measuring c3.91 hectares, situated on lands known locally as the former mart site located at new road, castlecomer road and old mart street, kilkenny. The development will consist of the construction of a mixed residential and retail development with a total gross floor area of c. 13,165sqm and will include: 1.80 no. Residential units (comprising 17 no. Houses, 17no. Duplexes, 46 no. Apartments) and 1no. Assisted care unit in 8no. Blocks (c. 7,489sqm total gross floor area), along with 90 no. Car parking spaces, public open space, communal space, private space for dwellings, private balconies and terraces for duplex and apartment units, hard and soft landscaping, lighting, play area, bin and bike stores and all other associated site development works, service and utility connections
The development proposes a new vehicular and pedestrian access to the residential development off new road between block b and block f. A new bus stop is provided on castlecomer road with pedestrian/cycle access and a pedestrian plaza
The total 80 no. Residential units and 1 no. Assisted care unit will be provided as follows: * block a (2 storeys) will comprise 3 no. 3-bed houses and 1no. 4-bed house. * block b (2 storeys) will comprise 3 no. 3-bed houses and 1 no. 4-bed house. * block c (2 storeys) will comprise 4no. 3-bed houses and 2no. 4-bed houses. * block d (2 storeys) will comprise 2no. 3-bed houses and 1no. 4-bed house. * block e (part single and part 3 storey) will comprise 3no. 3-bed duplexes over 1no. 4-bed assisted care unit at ground floor level. * block f (3 storeys) will comprise 6no. 1-bed apartments and 12no. 2-bed apartments. * block g (4 storeys) will comprise 16no. 2-bed apartments and 8no. 3-bed duplexes. * block h (4 storeys) will comprise 12no. 2-bed apartments and 6no. 3-bed duplexes
Blocks i and j are accessed from a new vehicular junction off old mart street along with a toucan crossing point and pedestrian/cycle access. Block i consists of 1no. Single storey retail unit of c. 5,387sqm gross floor area (c. 2,598sqm convenience net sales area and c. 845sqm comparison net sales area) including a licensed alcohol sales area, a community room (c. 28sqm), deposit return scheme, storage areas, ancillary offices, staff facilities, cage marshalling area, bin storage, service yard including grocery home shopping delivery vehicle docking area, dedicated service vehicle entrance from ca

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

General BusinessUC

“To provide for general development”

National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area

Objective set by the Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027 (2021–2027). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

Read the zoning objectives in the development plan

Built & sold

What happened next

Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
5 New Rd, Kilkenny	Apr 2025	€272,000	170 m
4 New Rd, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny	Jun 2025	€358,000	183 m
42 Wolfe Tone St, Kilkenny, Kilkenny	Jul 2025	€410,000	204 m
31 Wolfe Tone St, Kilkenny	Sept 2025	€275,000	217 m
44 Wolfe Tone St, Kilkenny, Kilkenny	Aug 2025	€295,000	217 m
30 Wolfe Tone St, Kilkenny, Kilkenny	Jun 2026	€282,000	221 m
46 Wolfe Tone St, Kilkenny, Kilkenny	Jan 2026	€292,000	225 m
23 Wolfe Tone St, Kilkenny, Kilkenny	Feb 2025	€310,500	250 m

Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.

Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.

Key dates

Timeline

Application received31 July 2024
Further information requested23 September 2024
Further information received25 April 2025
Decision due19 June 2025
Decision issued19 June 2025
Appeal submitted9 July 2025

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.