Planning precedent report

Full Planning Permission on behalf of Blessington GAA Club for a new 2 storey clubhouse building to contain at ground floor level (a) 2 no. changing rooms with adjoining toilet,( b) a referee’s room with changing facilities, (c) plant room, (d) public toilets with separate disabled access, (e) internal storage area and at first floor level (f) a new indoor training/gym space with viewing terrace and (g) meeting room with adjoining toilet facilities and all associate site works at Blessington Demesne, Blessington, Co. Wicklow.

1) A single-storey structure to contain (a) 2 no. changing rooms with adjoining toilet and shower facilities. (b) a referee's room with changing facilities. (c) public toilets with separate disabled access toilet. (d) internal store, corridor, cleaners store and stairway to storage facility within the attic space. (e) a small tuck shop facility for the sale of tea/coffee and sandwiches which wil be made off site. 2) All ancillary ground works in association with the above-described project

6 no 18 high columns to the perimeter of their main pitch and to use these columns to mount floodlights to illuminate the pitch

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 sqm 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 sqm each) and a marketing suite. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and is submitted with the application

All weather pitch/play area with ancillary lighting, perimeter fencing and all associated site works

LARGE-SCALE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT consisting of 329 residential units and associated site works, the development will also include: the extension of the Blessington Inner Relief Road (approx. 700m long) from the existing 4-arm roundabout at Blessington Demesne Lands, running north west of Blessington Business Park, and north of the Woodleigh residential area to a new four-arm roundabout junction on the N81 Dublin Road. The new roundabout will consolidate existing junctions with Holyvalley, Doran's Pit and the Roadstone quarry site. A new junction will be provided to the Roadstone Quarry Access Road north of the road's alignment. The scheme will comprise a two-lane single carriageway road with cycle lanes and foothpaths, landscaping and drainage works (including attenuation ponds & Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)); road signage and all ancillary site services and development works above and below ground. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and a Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and are submitted with the application