Sea green - New Housing development

Merrilady

Hi,

Has anyone heard / knows anything about this.
It's Wood Group and in Greystones somewhere.
I've seen an ad for it in Sherry Fitz

Thanks

Zoo4m8

On right, short distance past Blacklion church..

Annasopra

Merrilady wrote: »

Hi,

Has anyone heard / knows anything about this.
It's Wood Group and in Greystones somewhere.
I've seen an ad for it in Sherry Fitz

Thanks

They were selling some of those about 6 or 7 years ago

cocker5

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

They were selling some of those about 6 or 7 years ago

The never actually launched... land went into Nama

sulberto

The land didn't go into Nama, Woods just pulled back because the bottom fell out of the market

pixbyjohn

Nana have released money so as building can go on. The land did go into NAMA

FirstIn

Is this the build conditional on completing the much needed link road?

cocker5

FirstIn wrote: »

Is this the build conditional on completing the much needed link road?

Don't think so there is already full planning approved.

recedite

AFAIK planning was conditional on the link road, but the developer will only build the part within his own site, which would take it up to a point near to the Applewood Heights/Chapel Road junction.

Ideally the publicly funded part would already be completed, bypassing St Lawrences school with another new section at Dromont, so as not to create an increased traffic hazard at the school. (Not gonna happen)

Alternative scenario is that WCC (or NRA ?) do nothing, then when the developer finishes the road it can't be used for a long time because somebody else has to build the actual junction. That's what happened with the Farrankelly Road at the N11 junction.

recedite

Seagreen... between Kindlestown Hill and Snowdonia.

Sasso

The link road to the schools and Lidl are NOT in the co council five year plan

Annasopra

Sasso wrote: »

The link road to the schools and Lidl are NOT in the co council five year plan

Which 5 year plan?

cocker5

Building has already started drove by here today.. A number of units are already started!

sulberto

The developer has to complete the link road to tie in just south of the current Applewood-Chapel Road junction.

Taltos

Which realistically is not going to help all that much as the road it's joining is a bit of a nightmare down around the school. Ah gotta love the joining up thinking of our town planners. Suggest they get off their backsides and take a stroll around the areas they're responsible for at different times of the day, stats and reports are only 1/3rd of the story.

loyatemu

It will help as there will now be 2 ways of getting to the schools and Lidl rather than all traffic having to funnel through the junction at McDonalds Lidl. Also kids from Applewood, Kenmare Heights etc may be more likely to walk to school if there is a less roundabout route. They do need to complete the upgrade all the way through to Delgany Wood though.

pixbyjohn

The residents of Applewood Heights won't be too impressed with the extra volume of traffic through their estate

Merrilady

Wow, thanks so much for the info.
The site is where I thought it was alright, beautiful area, but my goodness where will the cars go. I confess, I don't know much about the proposed new road, but am learning now. Thanks again

loyatemu

pixbyjohn wrote: »

The residents of Applewood Heights won't be too impressed with the extra volume of traffic through their estate

Yeah, hadn't thought of that - it'll definitely be faster for residents of the new estate to drive through Applewood to the village than to battle through 2 or 3 sets of traffic lights at Blacklion.

Taltos

Which might be part of the reason the Applewood residents tried and failed a number of years ago to block off / restrict access to the estate from the top of the road.

recedite

Applewood is no longer on the "edge" of town. There are pros and cons to that. They'll just have to get used to the new situation.

beepbeeprichie

Don't remember ever waking up to that view in Greystones! Bit of false advertising really.....you can see Snowdonia on the odd day......if it's pointed out to you.......and you squint enough... you can just about make out it's outline....you think.
Hilarious sales pitch, hopefully the new residents aren't too disappointed

Zoo4m8

Woke up to that view three times this autumn and have the photos to prove it....

But it certainly is an unusual inducement to buy a house, aimed at the terminally optimistic maybe?

Alun

beepbeeprichie wrote: »

Don't remember ever waking up to that view in Greystones! Bit of false advertising really.....you can see Snowdonia on the odd day......if it's pointed out to you.......and you squint enough... you can just about make out it's outline....you think.

I've seen it a good few times, and I don't even live in Greystones What you want is a good cold, clear winter's day with no haze and you can see Snowdonia as clear as a bell with the naked eye. Back in 2010 when we had the bad snow I was up on Kindlestown Hill and you could make out snow on the tops of the Welsh mountains too.

Cmck1985

Any idea on price range? I believe Sherry Fitz had a pre public launch during the week

Merrilady

No prices yet apparra, wasn't at the meeting myself but emailed and I was sent a brochure with site and house plans

sinead81

Will definitely be interesting to see how the extra cars cope going through applewood. It will be a nightmare to turn right at the Vets towards Tesco. Isn't there another development going beside Seagreen? I thought I saw 2 x signs advertising 2 x developments at the site entrance

loyatemu

sinead81 wrote: »

Will definitely be interesting to see how the extra cars cope going through applewood. It will be a nightmare to turn right at the Vets towards Tesco. Isn't there another development going beside Seagreen? I thought I saw 2 x signs advertising 2 x developments at the site entrance

there are 2 more developments going beside the schools opposite Lidl

recedite

I see the website (as per post #10) has been updated and expanded.
Snowdonia has vanished in the sea mists :pac:
But drawings and specs of the 3 and 4 bed houses are up.
Look very nice. They have taken a completely different tack to the Carrig Mill development in complying with new building regs which require an energy efficient home. There are no heat pumps or solar PV panels. Instead they have gas condensing boilers and solar thermal panels. Plus a radiator in the landing area to distribute any excess solar heat after the hot water cylinder has been heated. Which presumably will heat up nicely during the summer months
Also rainwater harvesting. This seems to be the same builder that developed the Delgany Wood area.

Anyway, they look well designed, and should be cheap and trouble free in terms of maintenance and running costs.

vinpaul

Just been looking at an earlier promotional article about Seagreen. It was in Irish Times on 30th October heading "Go Wales-spotting from Greystones". Glad to see that seeing Wales has been deleted, but there is a final sentence that says "The Dart station at Greystones is a 15-minute walk from Seagreen".
That's some claim. You'd be doing well to get to Tesco in 15 minutes!!!

cocker5

recedite wrote: »

I see the website (as per post #10) has been updated and expanded.
Snowdonia has vanished in the sea mists :pac:
But drawings and specs of the 3 and 4 bed houses are up.
Look very nice. They have taken a completely different tack to the Carrig Mill development in complying with new building regs which require an energy efficient home. There are no heat pumps or solar PV panels. Instead they have gas condensing boilers and solar thermal panels. Plus a radiator in the landing area to distribute any excess solar heat after the hot water cylinder has been heated. Which presumably will heat up nicely during the summer months
Also rainwater harvesting. This seems to be the same builder that developed the Delgany Wood area.

Anyway, they look well designed, and should be cheap and trouble free in terms of maintenance and running costs.

yes same builder... same issues as Delgany wood.. poorly finished off and poor landscaping etc not to mention the one row of houses where they all had huge leaks etc

Merrilady

Really ?
Have heard nothing about the builder or Delgany Wood, would love to hear more.

Apparra they are now selling off the plans

Blingy

Yes I believe the builders have released a number of houses for sale .... Buying off the plans as such.

pixbyjohn

Info here
http://www.sherryfitz.ie/news/2134

loyatemu

Is this the new property market - no advertised prices?

2011

loyatemu wrote: »

Is this the new property market - no advertised prices?

No, it's the oldest trick in the book.
Don't advertise the prices until you see what the demand is.

Blingy

loyatemu wrote: »

Is this the new property market - no advertised prices?

Ring them and I'm sure you'll get the prices. There was prices discussed at the open/launch evening.

recedite

On the Sherry fitz website it says "which is due to launch Spring of 2016."
So I'd imagine the prices will remain "fluid" until then. Its the old law of supply and demand.

2011

Blingy wrote: »

Ring them and I'm sure you'll get the prices. There was prices discussed at the open/launch evening.

That may give you an "indication" of the price
Prices are only fixed when a contract is signed.

Merrilady

Think 4 beds are approx 480/490 ish

sinead81

If the 4beds are that much I dread to think what the 3 bed semis will be priced at or should I say overpriced at!

2011

Merrilady wrote: »

Think 4 beds are approx 480/490 ish

Following a Greystones 4 bedroom house search on Daft.ie I would be surprised if they were that cheap.

sinead81

2011 wrote: »

Following a Greystones 4 bedroom house search on Daft.ie I would be surprised if they were that cheap.

Off the plans can be a little bit cheaper, well hopefully anyway

2011

sinead81 wrote: »

Off the plans can be a little bit cheaper, well hopefully anyway

Perhaps, we shall see.

Merrilady

4 beds starting from €445k, these were the Pre-launch price, so buying off plans.
3 beds €365/385

2011

Merrilady wrote: »

4 beds starting from €445k

Interesting.
Cheaper than I expected to be honest.
Are they detached? Do you know what size they are?

Merrilady

Not sure of the size, but they are semi detached.
No info on detached or 5 beds.

stilltryingit

No measurements given on the floor plans, bedroom 3 in the 3 bed looks tiny

Garlic Suplmnt

Previews being offered to people who registered interest, the email say that the 3 beds are 'from 395k'

2011

Garlic Suplmnt wrote: »

Previews being offered to people who registered interest, the email say that the 3 beds are 'from 395k'

So that is already up from the €365k to €385k "pre-launch" price discussed in post #45.

I'm not surprised.

loyatemu

2011 wrote: »

So that is already up from the €365k to €385k "pre-launch" price discussed in post #45.

I'm not surprised.

good times...