Council refuses planning permission for proposed €14m care home in Kildare

Kildare Co Council has refused planning permission for a two-storey 91 bed nursing home in the Straffan area. 

The proposed facility had wan overall area of 4,572 sq.m. 

The designs had provision for en-suite bedrooms, reception and day rooms, quiet rooms, dining rooms, a family room, a lounge room, kitchen, treatment rooms and salon, family room, reflection room, administration and office rooms, storage rooms, laundry room, staff facilities, plant rooms, service rooms, accessible WCs and circulation areas.

Also included in the plans were 30  parking spaces for vehicles and 12 for bicycles.

The nursing home would have been accessed via a new vehicular and pedestrian link with the adjacent Darley Residential development currently under construction.

New footpath and street lighting was also planned. 

The project had an estimated construction value of around €14m, according to construction database Building Information Services.