Planning application · Co. Kildare
Shanrath (Townparks TD), Athy, Co. Kildare
Granted 13 Oct 2025
Archived record
This application has left our current planning lists, so this page is no longer updated. We last saw it in the council's register on 11 Jun 2026. The details below are as they were then. The council's register has the current status.
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What and where
~96 homes
for (a) The provision of a total of 96no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings which will consist of the following unit mix: 8no. 4-bed dwellings, 74no. 3-bed dwellings, and 14no. 2-bed dwellings, (b) Provision for a single story creche with associated external play areas, car parking area and new vehicle entrance onto the existing cul-de-sac local road, (c) Provision of new internal roadways and footpaths by extension of the existing residential access road from within the existing Shanrath Housing Estate, with associated works to facilitate vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access and car parking; (d) Provision of a shared footpath and cycle lane connection with the existing shared footpath and cycle lane along the Athy Distributor Route (N78) and previously approved adjacent housing development (Planning Reference 24/60683); (e) Provision of open space areas to include all hard and soft landscape works, planting and boundary treatments; (f) All other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground including; surface water drainage system, foul sewerage network including connection to previously approved foul pumping station (Planning Reference 24/61174), public lighting and all ancillary site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a reduction of the site size, a redesign of the road and housing layouts of the development, an increase in the number of residential units from 96 to 98, changes to residential unit types to incorporate five three-storey elements with 10 no. two-bedroom ground floor apartments with 10 no. three-bedroom duplex units over, changes to boundary treatments, an additional access point to the Athy Distributor Road and all associated site works
- Location
- Athy, Co. Kildare Map
- Council
- Kildare County Council
- Planning reference
- 2560179
- Applicant
- David Walsh Homes Ltd
- Agent
- Vivian Cummins
Key facts
- Homes
- ~96estimated from the application
- Floor area
- 10,819 m²per planning documents
- Received
- 25 Feb 2025
- Granted
- 13 Oct 2025
Timeline
- Application received
- Granted
Outlook
What happens next
Work packages named so far
Documents and evidence
Check the record
- Council planning fileThe application file 2560179 on eplanning.ie: drawings, reports and the decision.Open the council's file
- From the planning documentsRead from Application Form - Part A in the council's file.
- Unit mix
- 14 2-bed, 74 3-bed, 8 4-bed
- Floor area
- 10,819 m² (per planning documents)
- Site area
- 3.52 ha
- Applicant
- David Walsh Homes Ltd.
- Phasing
- single phase
- Scope
- Development of 96 dwellings, a creche, roads, footpaths, cycle lane, open space, and associated infrastructure on a 3.52 ha site in Shanrath, Athy, Co. Kildare.
How we know this
From the Kildare County Council planning register, as last seen on 11 Jun 2026. The council's own file is the official record. Facts from the planning documents were read from the documents in that file.
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