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New housing developments in Maynooth

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  • #1112
    sirmixalot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭sirmixalot


    Has it up for rent, wierd house, something must be up with it as nobody stays in it for long or sells it soon afterwards.

    Bargain rent though 2100 pm FFS!

    Check out this property I found using Daft 


    https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/house-28-straffan-grove-straffan-wood-maynooth-co-kildare/5574353



  • #1113
    No_Neck_Damian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭No_Neck_Damian


    What's a 2 bed second hand apartment going for nowadays?

    How are people stumping up the crazy money for such poor quality?



  • #1114
    evil_seed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122177641#Comment_122177641

    anything from €265k to €325k on daft (most aptly named site)



  • #1115
    L1011
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    Planning gone in for 62 apartments at Mullen Park, front of the estate just behind Lidl.



  • #1116
    Gall88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭Gall88


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122360332#Comment_122360332

    There was work going on around there a few weeks ago. The blue hoarding was being replaced and the ground seemed to be getting cleared a bit.



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  • #1117
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122360332#Comment_122360332

    Are they all social apartments?



  • #1118
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122361739#Comment_122361739

    Planning app is by the developer of Mullen Park but that does not preclude them being sold to an AHB or the council.



  • #1119
    crl84
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    I guess that will be used as another excuse for the link road between Straffan Road-Mullen Park-Griffin Rath-Celbridge Road not to be opened up for another 3 years……

    mullen-griffin.JPG


  • #1120
    FrankN1
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    Are the Cairn Homes metal fences ever going to be removed at Mariavilla?



  • #1121
    tnegun
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    Do you mean the ones at the Dunboyne road junction? Wasn't there an objection to the plans for apartments holding it up? It also suits them to hold onto that land bank as long as possible as prices increase in the meantime.



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  • #1122
    L1011
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    Looks like work is starting on Grange Park, the new ~100 unit estate beside the school on the Celbridge Road



  • #1123
    donspeekinglesh
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    Planning granted for apartments on the land by the catholic church:

    ePlan - Online Planning Details



  • #1124
    [Deleted User]
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    I've heard the ones on the Celbridge Road are all Social. Can't confirm this though. Could be wrong. Another 105 dwellings emptying out onto the already congested roads around the town. Madness.



  • #1125
    FrankN1
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122726281#Comment_122726281

    Wonder when building will start



  • #1126
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122726281#Comment_122726281

    Only amendments to a previously approved scheme hence the relatively quick process



  • #1127
    BlueSkyDreams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122726341#Comment_122726341

    Where would you put the 105 homes, if not in a town and location that has direct access to roads, rail, infrastructure & facilities?



  • #1128
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727153#Comment_122727153

    I'd have a traffic plan in place alongside the development.



  • #1129
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727520#Comment_122727520

    There is an extensive traffic plan for the town in the new LAP



  • #1130
    tnegun
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    I'd like to see some of that plan delivered before adding more new homes. Promises regarding Mill street upgrades have been part of every councillor and TDs promises for the last decade, if not longer, and we're still waiting.



  • #1131
    BlueSkyDreams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727520#Comment_122727520

    There is a traffic plan. It also isn't mandatory that you own a car, in order to live in the new homes.



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  • #1132
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727551#Comment_122727551

    Is it not? Are you sure? I thought every house had to have two cars these days.

    Yea there might be a plan but feck all of it will be implemented.

    Mariavilla junction is an absolute nightmare at certain times of the day.



  • #1133
    BlueSkyDreams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727560#Comment_122727560

    Yes, I am quite sure.

    If 105 more people get a home, that's probably more important than some drivers having to sit in traffic for an extra 10 mins a day.



  • #1134
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727571#Comment_122727571

    If they can afford the homes and they arent bought by some foreign pension fund which has already happened in the town.

    Seriously though. Traffic is at crisis point in the town. The roads cant handle the sheer volume and increasing volume of traffic year on year.



  • #1135
    L1011
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    When something being a capacity issue is also a capacity issue everywhere else in the country, it isn't realistically something that can be seen as a reason to stop.

    The estate is on a road with a bus every ~15mins most of the day, 24h bus services; is a short walk from shops, primary schools, GPs, and a train station. There isn't a much better site available.



  • #1136
    Staplor
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    Is everyone forgetting that we were selected to be the most decarbonising-est town in Kildare? Sneaky council make roads so bad people can't use them.

    Having a strategy to get past traffic at certain times of the day is quite frankly bizzare. There are roads that I avoid at certain hours of the day. I walk or cycle where I can, but there are times I need to bring the car. Yet we vote in the same council candidates over and over again.

    Progress in this town is a shambles, there's a road between LIDL and the Celbridge road that can't open for the last number of years because of …… reasons. The ring road has been discussed for years, and yet the bit they are actually starting on doesn't address the University traffic at all.



  • #1137
    taratee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭taratee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122726341#Comment_122726341

    Can they have an estate that is all social nowadays? I thought that was a thing of the past. My in-laws live at the end of Rail Park just across from Fitzgerald Close. That junction is going to be a disaster when the new development is finished in Fitzgerald Close. They did raise their concerns with KCC and the CC who lives on that road but nothing came from it.

    Am Yisrael Chai - Bring them home.



  • #1138
    L1011
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    Entirely social estates can still be built. Including the one you're having issues with the road junction for.

    There's been planning for an estate on that land for about two decades now; the time to raise concerns about impacts of developments there was, unfortunately, two decades ago.

    There would have been an estate built at that time there except for the financial crisis.



  • #1139
    [Deleted User]
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    Did they not have to reapply for pp? Traffic issues including population and student numbers have increased rapidly in 15 years. Shocking they didnt have to factor that in to a new application. The town is bollicksed with lack of infrastructute for motorists. The green argument simply is not a sufficient reason not to improve the roads.

    We will end up with a Mariavilla / Moyglare road mark 2 opposite rail park now. That junction is bananas at school going times due to the lights sequencing. They'll lash in another set of lights for good measure on the Straffan Road. The usual know all posters on here here will fully supportive of it no doubt. " Walk, run, get a kid carrier for your bike" The usual crap from the hippies.

    Imagine selecting a university to the most de-carbonised town. Absolute genius Councillors we have.

    Post edited by [Deleted User] on


  • #1140
    Staplor
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    The only politician getting my vote is whoever makes the ring road happen.

    And not opening the bit that's already done, I mean the motorway to the college bit - the bit that is actually needed.

    None of the current lot are getting a vote.



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  • #1141
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122753212#Comment_122753212

    That's in the new LAP, approved by all the local Councillors. It's not going to happen until there's significant development over there; and no politician who claims they can change that is telling you the truth.



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