BREAKING: Several houses to built on grounds of Kildare school

Kildare County Council has granted planning permission for nine houses on the grounds of Clongowes Wood College in Clane. 

The development will consist of accommodation for a new Jesuit community and Clongowes Wood College staff residential accommodation.

The project comprises a four-bedroom, single-storey, Jesuit community dwelling.

Also approved is a terrace of five three-bedroom (two-storey) staff family houses and a row of three four-bedroom (two-storey) staff family houses.

The units will have private amenity spaces and be arranged around a central communal courtyard amenity space.

Also in the plans is landscaping and the upgrading and re-surfacing of an existing access road.

On-site car parking and public lighting are included. 

The works also include the removal of a contractor's compound/carpark and the recreation of an historic tree-lined site boundary as previously permitted under a planning application in 2018.

Clongowes Wood College and grounds are a protected structure under legislation. 

The estimated construction value of the project is €2m, according to Construction Information Services.