Infrastructure · Co. Wicklow
Blessington Demesne, Blessington, Co. Wicklow
Granted 11 Sep 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This application has left our current planning lists, so this page is no longer updated.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
Large-scale residential development
large-scale residential development at this site c. 9.98 ha. The application provides for amendments to the decision of An Coimisiún Pleanála (Ref.319657-24 and Wicklow County Council Ref. 23/689) which permitted a Town Park of 10.65 ha. and c.700m of the Blessington Inner Relief Road (BIRR). The proposed development provides for revisions to the previously proposed residential development comprising 329 units and will consist of: • 325 residential units including: o 278 two storey houses (28 no. 2-bed, 218 no. 3-bed, 32 no. 4 bed.) comprising of semi-detached and terraced units. o 47. No. apartments (22 no. 1 bed, 25 no. 2 bed) provided within 1 no. four-storey block. • Car and bicycle parking spaces to include: o 534 no. car parking spaces for the houses, 53 no. spaces for the apartments. o 72 bicycle spaces for the apartments & 46 Visitor spaces across the scheme. • 1.04 ha public open space including pocket parks and playgrounds; • 1,290 m² of communal open space • Two new vehicular access off Oak Drive and one new vehicular access off the Blessington Inner Relief Road. • Infrastructure works to serve the housing development to include the internal road network; • ESB substations/switch rooms, lighting, site drainage works and all ancillary site services and development works above and below ground; and • Temporary permission for up to 3 years is also sought for the erection of three marketing signs (4.55 m high and 13.73 m² each) and a marketing suite. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and is submitted with the application
- Location
- Blessington, Co. Wicklow Map
- Council
- Wicklow County Council
- Planning reference
- 2560548
- Applicant
- Cairn Homes Properties Ltd
- Agent
- Sybil Berne
Key facts
- Floor area
- 29,687 m²
- Project type
- Infrastructure
- Received
- 18 Jul 2025
- Granted
- 11 Sep 2025
- Site start
- 3 Apr 2026
Timeline
- Application received
- Granted
- Site start
Outlook
What happens next
Work packages named so far
Documents and evidence
Check the record
- Council planning fileThe application file 2560548 on eplanning.ie: drawings, reports and the decision.Open the council's file
- From the planning documentsRead from Planning Report and Statement of Consistency in the council's file.
- Applicant
- Cairn Homes Properties Ltd
- Scope
- The application proposes a large-scale residential development at Blessington Demesne, Co. Wicklow, including 329 residential units, a 10.65 ha Town Park, and a 700m section of the Blessington Inner Relief Route.
How we know this
From the Wicklow 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.
Site starts
Commencement notices for this permission
- 3 Apr 2026Work started · 4 storey structural frame multi-unit apartment block with balconies, comprising 47...
A commencement notice tells the council that building work is about to start. A completion certificate is filed when it is finished.
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