Barnhall Meadows leixlip

Houses look nice but the proximity to the motorway was a major negative for us - We went out for a look at the area during the summer and the nearly constant noise from the road was basically a dealbreaker for us

I grew up beside the railway line and you get so used to noises you don't even notice them at all after a while.

lordgoat wrote: »

All of this is true but the estate is very far out of the town. No amenities within walking except the Rugby club.

Obviously you have never been there!

It's 15 minutes walk from the village, nearer to the secondary school and Irish school than all the houses on Easton Road. Shop, restaurant and hairdresser less than five minutes away. Bus three minutes in the morning. Train, probably 20 minutes max walking.

lordgoat wrote: »

You have the village 15 mins away and the train 20? These are pretty much the same distance and I'd say 20mins is a normal walking pace.

I did forget about the Eurostar 5 mins away so yes that is there.

The houses are lovely but they are a decent walk away.

Google maps says approx 20 minutes from Barnhall Meadows to the train Station, the same time as it gives from Beech Park. Also estimates 20 minutes to the Courtyard Hotel In the village - 30 minutes from Beech Park!

lordgoat wrote: »

Exactly, two of the farthest out estates in the town. Beech Park much easier to get onto the motorway though.

Barnhall Meadows is closer to the town than the 50 year old estates of Easton Park and Oaklawn West

lordgoat wrote: »

Are you just listing out all the estates that are a 20 min walk from the town?

My point is that the estate is a decent walk from the town, you then listed out other estates that are also a decent walk away from the town? How does this move BM closer to Leixlip??

Can you follow that? Please feel free to view it a rhetorical question and don't bother answering as this is tiresome and I'm out.

No, I was addressing your incorrect and out of context comment:

lordgoat wrote: »

All of this is true but the estate is very far out of the town. No amenities within walking except the Rugby club.

...since you obviously didn't know what you were talking about!

Rosahane wrote: »

Shop, restaurant and hairdresser less than five minutes away.

I wouldn't class that as a proper restaurant. It's a glorified pizza take away, owned by Macaris who own all 4 chippers and the 2 other pizza places in Leixlip, along with the new wine bar.

Hard not to feel very negative about this place .Desecrating a much loved local amenity The way the builders' ads go on you'd swear they built the Wonderful Barn .Probably will rival the Docklands for ultra low percentage of ordinary Irish people who can afford to live there.Fought tooth and nail by neighbours for at least 30 years .A top 200 World Heritage Site turned into a muddy building site so some wealthy developers can become even more wealthy .The poor divils 'guarding' the site don't look as if they're likely to be paid enough to avoid squalor( if they're not already crammed in with a dozen more low paid workers in their accommodation) or returning to their homelands during next downturn and builders all self employed contractors no doubt .A monument to everything we did wrong in the last decade .And now four months before water can be connected ...Maybe they could run pipes to the floodwater in the mega puddles .Allotment holders must be fuming .

2011abc wrote: »

Hard not to feel very negative about this place .Desecrating a much loved local amenity The way the builders' ads go on you'd swear they built the Wonderful Barn .Probably will rival the Docklands for ultra low percentage of ordinary Irish people who can afford to live there.Fought tooth and nail by neighbours for at least 30 years .A top 200 World Heritage Site turned into a muddy building site so some wealthy developers can become even more wealthy .The poor divils 'guarding' the site don't look as if they're likely to be paid enough to avoid squalor( if they're not already crammed in with a dozen more low paid workers in their accommodation) or returning to their homelands during next downturn and builders all self employed contractors no doubt .A monument to everything we did wrong in the last decade .And now four months before water can be connected ...Maybe they could run pipes to the floodwater in the mega puddles .Allotment holders must be fuming .

It's panic building, due to the "homeless crisis". Regulations were relaxed and now we're being carpet bombed with 3-bed semis and no amenities. As reported in the paper last week that the builders haven't applied to Irish Water for a connection, even though the lead time is 16 weeks, and the estate is almost finished.

Naos wrote: »

Would you agree it's about a 15 minute walk to Leixlip town?

A 15min walk from the front of the estate. If i recall correctly there will only be one way in/out in the first phase, and given that it's a long estate you can add another 10 mind just to walk get to the front entrance at a comfortable walking pace.

I went to look at these during their open day. Lovely houses, particularly the large detached. But I couldn't personally consider what they were looking for offered value. Not for a timber framed house.

I used to live on the south side of Rinawade and you could hear the noise from the M4 but it wasn't that disturbing, more like the sea in the distance. I'd say it would be a lot louder from Barnhall. I'm in Westfield now and I love it but there is a lot more noise from the road up to Intel.

Incidentally, the Leixlip LAP or whatever it's called, has included in it's plans, a link road coming from the R449 roundabout on the south side of the M4 down along bythe HP campus to the R404 just over the motorway bridge past Barnhall. This will mean easy access to the M4 without going through the village or through Castletown to Easton Rd.