MORE HOMES PLANNED AT KILNAHUE
A LAST-DITCH effort has been made by the owner of a site along the Kilnahue Lane at Gorey Hill to get permission for 82 houses before the land is potentially rezoned.
Trinity Homes has applied to build the houses on 3.652 hectares between Gorey Gaelscoil and the Carnew Road and along the Kilnahue Lane on a site that was earmarked for rezoning to community or amenity under the new Gorey Local Area Plan.
If granted, it could mean that 300 houses are built on lands bordering Kilnahue Lane. Gerard Gannon Properties recently got permission to build 219 houses on the other side of Kilnahue Lane.
The Gannon application is under appeal to An Bord Pleanála by local residents who say the lane is too narrow to accommodate so many houses.
The Trinity Homes application seeks construct 82 two-storey homes including: 4 two-bed terraced; 38 three-bed semi-detached; 20 four-bed semi-detached; and 20 fourbed detached homes. Each will have the option for a solar panel on the rear roof slope.
The developer also wants to upgrade the vehicular en- trance from Kilnahue Lane and to provide two on-site car parking spaces for each house, and landscaped public open space.
The application is being made under the provisions of the 2010 Local Area Plan, when the site was zoned for residential use.
A document on the planning file states that the applicant was told in January that the proposed site had been rezoned from residential to community or amenity by the elected members of Wexford County Council in the new Gorey Local Area Plan which went on public display in February.
The company lodged a submission against the rezoning.
The plan was expected to be discusses and formally adopted at yesterday afternoon’s meeting (Monday) of Wexford County Council, with any adjustments to the previous zoning expected to be decided.
An application in 2007 for 50 homes on the western side of the site was previously granted. This expired in 2013.