KILDARE: New 91-bed nursing home gets green light

An Bord Pleanala has granted permission with conditions for the construction of a two-storey 91 bed nursing home with an overall area of 4,572 sq.m. on the Barberstown Road in Straffan. 

The estimated construction cost is €14m, according to Building Information Ireland database. 

The nursing home includes en-suite bedrooms, reception and day rooms, quiet rooms, dining rooms, family room and a lounge room.

Also in the designs is a 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.

The works will include all associated landscaping and site works.

30 vehicular parking spaces and 12 cycle parking spaces will be provided.

The nursing home will be accessed via a new vehicular and pedestrian link formed via the adjacent Darley Residential development.

An existing service road to the west of the development will include a new footpath and streetlighting.