The Paddocks, Newbridge

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?

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 wrote: »

I can not comment on that because I did not move in yet 😑 . 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.

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:(

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 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.

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

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

I set up a facebook group a while back called Newbridge Residents Community Forum. Feel free to join.

Hi all,

We viewed a 3 bed semi detached house for phase two in The Paddocks this week. We loved the house & we have reserved one.

We are currently waiting on the H2B to get back to us & everything should get up and running. We are moving from Dublin & the commute from Newbridge to Pearse Street (where my partner works) seems fine. We have looked online and we cannot seem to see prices for the train. Would anyone happen to know the approx monthly fare for the train from Newbridge - Pearse Street? Also, we have been told that the move in date should be August / September. Can I ask a couple of things please in relation to this.

1. If they are saying move in date is Aug / Sep, by your experience did this run over by much? When should be expect to move in?

2. How is the estate to live in currently? Is it a safe area?

Thanks so much in advance for the help.

I am not sure about the price of the train to Pearse Station. However, if you are planning to do that journey on a daily bases you should look into the tax saver scheme. You save a lot of money buying it through the scheme. You can buy tickets monthly or annually. If you buy them annually your saving will even be greater because you pay for 10 months but you get a 12 month ticket. As it is now Newbridge is not included in the Dublin leap zone so it is not as cheap as travelling form Sallins the next station up. However, this might change as there are a lot of petitions ongoing to get Newbridge included in the leap zone area.


Regarding the moving in date. In my case I was told that I could move in March but it actually ended being April. However, in the builders defence, last year we had a lot of bad weather. We had 2 lots of heavy snow and this delayed everything. Your best bet is actually come to see the house. In your case the site is within an open house state so you can drive over to see the progress any time. Also you can always drop and email to the builder to find out about the progress. He is brilliant and he even allowed me to go into my house several times to see the progress.


As for the safety of the state. I can tell you that is very safe. I just have to tell you that my neighbour next door left her front door wide open for a whole morning and by the time I realised and I closed it was lunch time and nobody had even noticed.


The area is also safe. There are primary and secondary schools in within walking distance. I actually walk into town several times a week and with Newbridge having a shopping centre (with most of the shops one needs) and tkmaxx I hardly ever go to Dublin for anything. Obviously the town will be 10 minutes closer once they open the road joining the state to station road. Unfortunately, the road is to be built by a different developer that is taking his time on getting the road... however, even like this I walk into town so its not far at all.



It is a new house state so we have a few issues that go with being so new. For example we are not in google yet so some neighbours have issues with deliveries. We have several of each house numbers but nobody knows which one is the right number 5 because the names of the streets are not up yet.

Up to now we did not have a green area which meant that the children did not have a place to play. However, by the time you move in I guess that the grass will be ready even for mowing! because its already coming up.

As you can see all the complaints are actually not important. I have been living here for a year and I am very happy about it.
There is a whatsup group that is quite active so when you move in make sure you to join in.

Life1234 wrote: »

Hi,

We viewed a 3 bed semi detached house for phase two in The Paddocks this week. We loved the house & we have reserved one.

We are currently waiting on the H2B to get back to us & everything should get up and running. We are moving from Dublin & the commute from Newbridge to Pearse Street (where my partner works) seems fine. We have looked online and we cannot seem to see prices for the train. Would anyone happen to know the approx monthly fare for the train from Newbridge - Pearse Street? Also, we have been told that the move in date should be August / September. Can I ask a couple of things please in relation to this.

1. If they are saying move in date is Aug / Sep, by your experience did this run over by much? When should be expect to move in?

2. How is the estate to live in currently? Is it a safe area?

Thanks so much in advance for the help.

Hi, my husband gets the train to Dublin daily. He gets the tax saver ticket through his employment. It is always packed on the train on the downside. We moved here due to his job and because it is commutable to Dublin as we were so priced out of Dublin. We didn't have much delay moving in as it was a showhouse we bought. We were the first to move in 16 months ago. We have no reason to believe it is not safe and lucky to have lovely neighbours and we help each other out and are friends now. The access road is dependent on another developer. All the plans are on Kildare County Council site under Stennock/Leeson Bros. No experience of h2b as we are second time buyers. Good luck with everything.

Hi Ana Lalala,

Thanks for the message. We are only going to sign contracts this week so we aren't at that stage yet. Our house won't be ready until end of August so I think our snag list etc will happen then.

Is your house ready? It is a 3-bed semi detached?

What kind of things were on the snag list? Is there anything in particular that we should look out for?

Thanks so much.

analalala wrote: »

Hi Life1234,

did you maybe have snagging already? Asking because we did this Today and the number of snags are unreal, house looks like is 10 years old and not 1 month old, still can belive...Anyway can you please share your experience. Thank you!