The Paddocks, Newbridge

dragon5678 · 14-11-2017 10:09pm #1

Hi All

Just went Sale Agreed on a 3-bed semi house in the 1st Phase of The Paddocks in Newbridge. Has anyone else been to view the development? What are your thoughts?

Moving out of Dublin to go there and the commute doesn't look too bad for the frequent train service.

Looking forward to finally living in a house that we own

SusyCares · 28-12-2017 1:03pm

We have been thinking about the Paddocks.
Haven't gotten a viewing yet, but went by the site on the 26th and had a stroll around.
It's definitely our first choice but we still need to find out if any 4-beds are left.

dragon5678, did they give you an estimated date of completion?

dragon5678 · 02-01-2018 10:37am

SusyCares wrote: »

We have been thinking about the Paddocks.
Haven't gotten a viewing yet, but went by the site on the 26th and had a stroll around.
It's definitely our first choice but we still need to find out if any 4-beds are left.

dragon5678, did they give you an estimated date of completion?

Hi SusyCares

Our house is already completed and ready to move into. Currently at the contract stage and we have our loan pack.

You should give the EA a shout to arrange a viewing. I don't know if i can post names/phone numbers here but the information about The Paddocks is up-to-date on Daft.

Thanks
dragon5678

SusyCares · 02-01-2018 3:06pm

dragon5678 wrote: »

Hi SusyCares

Our house is already completed and ready to move into. Currently at the contract stage and we have our loan pack.

You should give the EA a shout to arrange a viewing. I don't know if i can post names/phone numbers here but the information about The Paddocks is up-to-date on Daft.

Thanks
dragon5678

Hi dragon5678,
Thank you.
we heard back today from the agent.
We will look to get a viewing in soon. They still have some of the units left that we are interested in, in the current phase.

Still going back and fourth with Revenue to get the H2B sorted though.

Saruman · 15-01-2018 3:34pm

Are there any management fees in this new estate?

dragon5678 · 15-01-2018 4:55pm

No management fees. Will be taken in charge by Kildare CC

Saruman · 15-01-2018 6:11pm

Thanks, I'll be taking a look there myself. Right by the train station so dead handy.

silverview · 17-01-2018 12:54pm

Hi guys whats the story with these houses, when are people moving in? I passed by there today and they still seem to be still building houses. Will there be a new entrance onto station Road or is the entrance through the meadows estate?

dragon5678 · 17-01-2018 8:16pm

silverview wrote: »

Hi guys whats the story with these houses, when are people moving in? I passed by there today and they still seem to be still building houses. Will there be a new entrance onto station Road or is the entrance through the meadows estate?

Hi Silverview

I went to the house were buying a few weeks back and it looks like our neighbours have already moved in as they had the bins out.
We've signed our contracts yesterday and looking for a closing date of a few weeks so hopefully it happens.

For the entrance, you currently have to go through the meadows. The through road to station road is partially there as a road to an apartment block. There going to have it ready in about 2 years I was told

Thurn · 02-02-2018 7:48pm

I bought a house in that development and I think it’s a good choice. As some of you mentioned it’s a great location since it’s close to the station. Plus Newbridge has a lot of amminities and it is not just your typical commuting town.
Silverview, I would like to think that the road that joins the state to the train station will be done earlier than 2 years. The site between the apartment blocks and the paddocks its own by a different developer than Montane (paddocks’ builder). They got planning mid October for building another apartment block in that site and a planning condition was to build that road. I would hope it’s ready in the next year!!

Regarding commuting to Dublin it all depends where you go. I commuted to Dublin south side for years and I never realized how bad it was until I stopped doing it during my maternity leave. My bus was leaving at 7:15a.m. And I was getting there on the good days at 8:50. On the bus /car you always depend on traffic,road works,accidents... my husband has done easier commutes up to the red cow. Those are easy And under the hour. The best it’s the train . If you have a job in Dublin close to pearse, Tara or Connolly you are in business. In 50’ you are in and you can work/ relax on the train. We both tried it and so far it has been great. At the moment there is a petition to reduce rail fares for Newbridge . The idea is to add Newbridge in the Short Hop Zone as Naas and Kilcock. So if you are thinking to use the train might be useful to sign the petition.

Dragon5678 and Silverview are you both living there? My house it’s not finished yet. How long from snagging to moving in?

dragon5678 · 02-02-2018 8:08pm

Thurn wrote: »

I bought a house in that development and I think it’s a good choice. As some of you mentioned it’s a great location since it’s close to the station. Plus Newbridge has a lot of amminities and it is not just your typical commuting town.
Silverview, I would like to think that the road that joins the state to the train station will be done earlier than 2 years. The site between the apartment blocks and the paddocks its own by a different developer than Montane (paddocks’ builder). They got planning mid October for building another apartment block in that site and a planning condition was to build that road. I would hope it’s ready in the next year!!

Regarding commuting to Dublin it all depends where you go. I commuted to Dublin south side for years and I never realized how bad it was until I stopped doing it during my maternity leave. My bus was leaving at 7:15a.m. And I was getting there on the good days at 8:50. On the bus /car you always depend on traffic,road works,accidents... my husband has done easier commutes up to the red cow. Those are easy And under the hour. The best it’s the train . If you have a job in Dublin close to pearse, Tara or Connolly you are in business. In 50’ you are in and you can work/ relax on the train. We both tried it and so far it has been great. At the moment there is a petition to reduce rail fares for Newbridge . The idea is to add Newbridge in the Short Hop Zone as Naas and Kilcock. So if you are thinking to use the train might be useful to sign the petition.

Dragon5678 and Silverview are you both living there? My house it’s not finished yet. How long from snagging to moving in?

Hi Thurn

We actually did our snag on Monday and they started on it Today. All going well, looking to close in 2 weeks

I was already optimistic when buying the house so already have my Newbridge to Connolly TaxSaver since January. Really helped when I was going out there. At least the heuston yo Connolly work on the luas to get to work so not paying for an extra ticket.

Thurn · 02-02-2018 8:34pm

Great! Two weeks is so close.
I hope mine can be as fast.
I drove in yesterday and the place was full of people working on the snagged houses after 5.pm. So perhaps you might even move sooner!!

karenken20 · 02-02-2018 10:02pm

Hi. We have bought in The Paddocks too. We bought one of the 3 bed townhouse. We are being told we can do our snag this coming week or next week. Really hoping to be in by the end of this month.

dragon5678 · 02-02-2018 11:50pm

Thurn wrote: »

Great! Two weeks is so close.
I hope mine can be as fast.
I drove in yesterday and the place was full of people working on the snagged houses after 5.pm. So perhaps you might even move sooner!!

Yup it's really close. When we went Sale Agreed, the house was already completed. It was one of the ones along the showhouse stretch (but not a showhouse of you get what I mean) so it was good to go back in November when we placed the deposit.

Just sorting the insurances for the mortgage. Have life done and waiting on closing to set the date on the home. Should know more on Tuesday

dragon5678 · 02-02-2018 11:54pm

karenken20 wrote: »

Hi. We have bought in The Paddocks too. We bought one of the 3 bed townhouse. We are being told we can do our snag this coming week or next week. Really hoping to be in by the end of this month.

Hey. Nice. When was your house finished? Ours was actually built when we viewed back in November

karenken20 · 03-02-2018 12:28am

dragon5678 wrote: »

Hey. Nice. When was your house finished? Ours was actually built when we viewed back in November

It's been "finished" for a while now but the finishing touches have taken some time so come together. Our next door neighbour is in and all so I'm hoping we are not too far behind them. We put our deposit down last October the weekend the houses launched so it's coming up on 4 months now. If it goes beyond this month we will need to get another property valuation for the bank as a valuation only lasts for 4 months, but hopefully that won't be necessary.

Thurn · 03-02-2018 8:32am

karenken20 wrote: »

dragon5678 wrote: »

Hey. Nice. When was your house finished? Ours was actually built when we viewed back in November

It's been "finished" for a while now but the finishing touches have taken some time so come together. Our next door neighbour is in and all so I'm hoping we are not too far behind them. We put our deposit down last October the weekend the houses launched so it's coming up on 4 months now. If it goes beyond this month we will need to get another property valuation for the bank as a valuation only lasts for 4 months, but hopefully that won't be necessary.

I am sure you will be in by the end of the month. I was told that I would be in too and mine is not even Finished!!

karenken20 · 03-02-2018 8:59am

Thurn wrote: »

I am sure you will be in by the end of the month. I was told that I would be in too and mine is not even Finished!!

Here's hoping! Our lease is up at the end of the month so we need to be out of our current home. What style house did you purchase yourself? Lots of people have moved in over the past 4 weeks or so.

Thurn · 03-02-2018 9:23am

karenken20 wrote: »

Thurn wrote: »

I am sure you will be in by the end of the month. I was told that I would be in too and mine is not even Finished!!

Here's hoping! Our lease is up at the end of the month so we need to be out of our current home. What style house did you purchase yourself? Lots of people have moved in over the past 4 weeks or so.

A 3 bedroom town house (type H). My lane will be the last one to be finished. I live locally so I go nearly every day to check. My house is still inside the "site" fence. Only 3 houses left in it. So I know that realistically it will be difficult to move in by the end of the month... but I know they will do their best. I even see them working on Sundays.

karenken20 · 03-02-2018 9:39am

Thurn wrote: »

A 3 bedroom town house (type H). My lane will be the last one to be finished. I live locally so I go nearly every day to check. My house is still inside the "site" fence. Only 3 houses left in it. So I know that realistically it will be difficult to move in by the end of the month... but I know they will do their best. I even see them working on Sundays.

We bought the same type. We are locals too so are up and down a good bit probably driving the builders demented ðŸ˜†

dragon5678 · 03-02-2018 8:09pm

karenken20 wrote: »

We bought the same type. We are locals too so are up and down a good bit probably driving the builders demented ðŸ˜†

We're coming from Dublin so looking forward to going to a more quiet, less city life. We went for a type K. Really like the look of the Hs though but I don't think any were left when we were looking. Unfortunately missed the launch date and came about a month later

Really like Newbridge of what I've seen so far. Looks like we'll be needing a car next. Have my test on Wednesday so fingers crossed

dragon5678 · 04-02-2018 7:23pm

Thurn wrote: »

I bought a house in that development and I think it’s a good choice. As some of you mentioned it’s a great location since it’s close to the station. Plus Newbridge has a lot of amminities and it is not just your typical commuting town.
Silverview, I would like to think that the road that joins the state to the train station will be done earlier than 2 years. The site between the apartment blocks and the paddocks its own by a different developer than Montane (paddocks’ builder). They got planning mid October for building another apartment block in that site and a planning condition was to build that road. I would hope it’s ready in the next year!!

Regarding commuting to Dublin it all depends where you go. I commuted to Dublin south side for years and I never realized how bad it was until I stopped doing it during my maternity leave. My bus was leaving at 7:15a.m. And I was getting there on the good days at 8:50. On the bus /car you always depend on traffic,road works,accidents... my husband has done easier commutes up to the red cow. Those are easy And under the hour. The best it’s the train . If you have a job in Dublin close to pearse, Tara or Connolly you are in business. In 50’ you are in and you can work/ relax on the train. We both tried it and so far it has been great. At the moment there is a petition to reduce rail fares for Newbridge . The idea is to add Newbridge in the Short Hop Zone as Naas and Kilcock. So if you are thinking to use the train might be useful to sign the petition.

Dragon5678 and Silverview are you both living there? My house it’s not finished yet. How long from snagging to moving in?

Hi Thurn

A question I had for you as I remembered it there, the train from Newbridge to Grand Canal Dock, is it busy in the mornings? Looking at getting the 7:00 or 7:19 service.

LisaLee · 04-02-2018 11:41pm

dragon5678 wrote: »

Hi Thurn

A question I had for you as I remembered it there, the train from Newbridge to Grand Canal Dock, is it busy in the mornings? Looking at getting the 7:00 or 7:19 service.

The 7:19 train has Newbridge as its first stop and it's normally not too crowded. Any time I've taken it, I've always had a seat.

deisecelt · 07-02-2018 9:25pm

Hi all. We're moving in this sat. Exciting times. Does anyone know yet what internet providers cover the estate? Thanks

Thurn · 08-02-2018 8:38pm

deisecelt wrote: »

Hi all. We're moving in this sat. Exciting times. Does anyone know yet what internet providers cover the estate? Thanks

Sounds exciting!! Only two days!!
I asked a while back and I was told the place it's wired for eir. There is also cable for virgin Atlantic that you can use for tv or broadband.

Thurn · 08-02-2018 8:41pm

LisaLee wrote: »

The 7:19 train has Newbridge as its first stop and it's normally not too crowded. Any time I've taken it, I've always had a seat.

Yes the same for me! So no need to rush for a seat

Thurn · 08-02-2018 8:46pm

karenken20 wrote: »

Hi. We have bought in The Paddocks too. We bought one of the 3 bed townhouse. We are being told we can do our snag this coming week or next week. Really hoping to be in by the end of this month.

Did you snag yet? I could not believe when I was told I can do mine by the end of next week. I have no doubt that you will be in by the end of the month!!

karenken20 · 08-02-2018 10:38pm

Thurn wrote: »

Did you snag yet? I could not believe when I was told I can do mine by the end of next week. I have no doubt that you will be in by the end of the month!!

We are doing our Snag on Saturday. So excited to move now

dragon5678 · 08-02-2018 10:46pm

karenken20 wrote: »

We are doing our Snag on Saturday. So excited to move now

Oh cool

We were told today our Snag items are mostly done and should be finished by Wednesday, with a few for us to close on Friday.

Heading down on Saturday too to look at the snag fixes and meeting someone about an attic conversion. Looking forward to seeing the place one last time before we actually own it

karenken20 · 08-02-2018 11:00pm

dragon5678 wrote: »

Oh cool
Heading down on Saturday too to look at the snag fixes and meeting someone about an attic conversion. Looking forward to seeing the place one last time before we actually own it

We just got the attic floored. Can't afford to get a conversion done yet but it's definitely on the cards a couple of years down the line. There is great space in the attic.

dragon5678 · 09-02-2018 12:23am

karenken20 wrote: »

We just got the attic floored. Can't afford to get a conversion done yet but it's definitely on the cards a couple of years down the line. There is great space in the attic.

I really wanted to get ours floored but the OH said why floor it when we can convert it so we went down that route.

I was surprised to see the space in ours, and theres loads of headroom too.

lunasaskye · 05-03-2018 6:58pm

Welcome to everyone moving into The Paddocks. I hope you will be very happy in your new homes and it will be a nice neighbourhood to live in. I am in a few weeks and settling in well as not from the area but have good friends in nearby Naas and Sallins. It will be great when the access road opens especially for those commuting on the train. It would also be great once more residents move in to look at setting up a Residents Association or even a WhatsApp Group for those who wish . For example, you might have been able to help someone out during the recent storm. One thing I have noticed about access through The Meadows is that none of the street lights are working there so I am going to email Kildare CoCo. as we also have no street lights set up so it is a long stretch of houses with no public lighting. Best of luck with the move and in your new home and life in The Paddocks.

karenken20 · 05-03-2018 7:58pm

lunasaskye wrote: »

Welcome to everyone moving into The Paddocks. I hope you will be very happy in your new homes and it will be a nice neighbourhood to live in. I am in a few weeks and settling in well as not from the area but have good friends in nearby Naas and Sallins. It will be great when the access road opens especially for those commuting on the train. It would also be great once more residents move in to look at setting up a Residents Association or even a WhatsApp Group for those who wish . For example, you might have been able to help someone out during the recent storm. One thing I have noticed about access through The Meadows is that none of the street lights are working there so I am going to email Kildare CoCo. as we also have no street lights set up so it is a long stretch of houses with no public lighting. Best of luck with the move and in your new home and life in The Paddocks.

Just in relation to the lack of street lights in the Meadows there has been an ongoing issue with the Receiver appointed to the Meadows and Kildare County council about this. The last update a few weeks ago was that the Receiver had given money to the council to get the lights situation sorted. The issue is that the Estate is not yet signed over to the Council.

We are in just over a week ourselves. Finding it difficult to get set up with Broadband. Has anyone gotten sorted with this get?

zmgakt7uw2dvfs · 06-03-2018 7:24am

How much are the detached houses selling for?

Thurn · 06-03-2018 11:19am

You should check with the Agents because last time I checked in daft there was only one house left to be sold. The agents are Coonan from Maynooth.

Thurn · 07-03-2018 10:45am

karenken20 wrote: »

We are in just over a week ourselves. Finding it difficult to get set up with Broadband. Has anyone gotten sorted with this get?

I can not comment on that because I did not move in yet ðŸ˜‘ . What is the problem with it? The connection or the companies being slow to come over to set it up?

karenken20 · 07-03-2018 11:31am

Thurn wrote: »

I can not comment on that because I did not move in yet ðŸ˜‘ . What is the problem with it? The connection or the companies being slow to come over to set it up?

The connection it seems. Can't even get a company to come out as they say there is no connection in the estate. This is despite there being Virgin Media boxes in the house. Neighbours are in 4 weeks and have no broadband yet.

Thurn · 07-03-2018 12:52pm

karenken20 wrote: »

The connection it seems. Can't even get a company to come out as they say there is no connection in the estate. This is despite there being Virgin Media boxes in the house. Neighbours are in 4 weeks and have no broadband yet.

wow! I do not understand that. I was just in and I was shown the boxes... So what are you supposed to do?

deisecelt · 07-03-2018 1:00pm

I'm just off the phone with eir. I must of been passed through to every department. Anyway there are no plans for them to put a line into the paddocks in the near future which also rules out sky as they use the same line. I was speaking to virgin and it's a company called Smallworld that installs their lines and they are to come back to me. A glimmer of hope with virgin but I wouldn't hold my breath on getting tv or broadband anytime soon:(

lunasaskye · 07-03-2018 11:03pm

We got our broadband with Virgin. Sky said they couldn't service this area. This was a few weeks back. I got a reply from Kildare CoCo regarding The Meadows lighting. They state Airtricity are due to fix the issue between 16-19th March. I have set up a group on Facebook called Newbridge Residents Community Forum to discuss issues and get recommendations and advice.

dragon5678 · 08-03-2018 8:42am

We had ordered Sky broadband, KN engineer came and said there's no line so we can't do anything. Waited 2 weeks for them to say that.

We have virgin coming over this afternoon to get installed. Next door have it and works great. All the paddocks addresses now come up in the online checker I believe and when I rang I got a free install to put in the connection point as its all blank plates in ours.

Kass13 · 22-03-2018 5:03pm

Hiya
Welcome everybody
We bought in The Paddocks recently and getting our house snagged tomorrow and Monday.
Any hints on what to look out for?
How long did they take to complete all the snags?

Thurn · 22-03-2018 5:15pm

Kass13 wrote: »

Hiya
Welcome everybody
We bought in The Paddocks recently and getting our house snagged tomorrow and Monday.
Any hints on what to look out for?
How long did they take to complete all the snags?

My snagging was quite straight forward. The finishes were really good in my house. There were very few things and they were all done very promptly. Snagging was done, fixed and revised under a week.

I think that the slower part of all will be the County Council signing off. I have been waiting now for 2 weeks!! I was told that in some cases the County council can take up to 4 weeks to do the signing off. Considering that next week is Easter I have no hope what so ever to move in any time soon.

Kass13 · 22-03-2018 5:41pm

Was the house painted in white before the snag or after?

Don’t worry!
Max two weeks more and you can move in!
Were you abke to do anything inside (floors,etc.) before Co Co signs off?

Thurn · 22-03-2018 6:17pm

Kass13 wrote: »

Was the house painted in white before the snag or after?

Don’t worry!
Max two weeks more and you can move in!
Were you abke to do anything inside (floors,etc.) before Co Co signs off?

The house was painted before the snagging. I was told I could do flooring before moving in.

tradesman · 23-03-2018 6:17am

Kass13 wrote: »

Hiya
Welcome everybody
We bought in The Paddocks recently and getting our house snagged tomorrow and Monday.
Any hints on what to look out for?
How long did they take to complete all the snags?

Can you explain tomorrow and monday to snag? Why 2 days

Kass13 · 23-03-2018 7:03am

We have friendly structural egineer so we asked him to come over to take a look today and proffesional snaggers coming on Mon

Kass13 · 10-05-2018 8:32pm

Hi All
Is the WhatsUpp group active already?

dragon5678 · 11-05-2018 1:09pm

Kass13 wrote: »

Hi All
Is the WhatsUpp group active already?

Hi Kass

Not sure. I haven't heard of one yet.

Kass13 · 11-05-2018 1:27pm

Have you heard of the burglary in the estate on Thu night?
Two houses have been broken into and gas boilers stolen.

Would be usefull to set up something to keep people in the loop on what is going on and to stay safe and aware?

Kass13 · 11-05-2018 1:32pm

We’re @ M. Woods no 189
Pop in after 8pm to exchange phone no’s so we can set up sth

The Paddocks, Newbridge

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