Newman to extend Ballintaggart HouseDeveloper and estate agent Paul Newman is looking for permission from Kildare Co Council to extend and alter Ballintaggart House and Stud in Colbinstown, Co Kildare, which he bought for over €13 million in July.
Newman, chairman of Douglas Newman Good and a director of property development companies in Ireland and the UK, will move into Ballintaggart House, a protected structure, from his home in Ballymore Eustace, Co Wicklow.
Ballintaggart House is an 18th century Gothic revival property on 165 acres with nine large bedrooms. Outside, there is a walled Victorian garden with a gardener's apartment, tennis court, steward's house, a gamekeeper's cottage, outhouses and 28 looseboxes. Newman wants to build a single-storey extension to the north side of the main house for a diningroom and modified rear entrance. He also wants to build a dormer window attic conversion over the billiards room as a new bedroom with en suite. The billiards room would be turned into a diningroom and the existing diningroom into a split level hall. Newman wants to turn a ground floor utility room into a switch room and a first floor bedroom into a dressingroom. He also wants to extend the coach-house and steward's house, and demolish the barn for a new one.
Hotel and 290 homes for 37-acre D22 site
Menolly Developments is seeking permission from South Dublin Co Council for a major mixed-use scheme adjoining Kilcarbery House, a protected structure, at Grange Castle, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. The proposal is for a 132-bed hotel, leisure centre, crèche, local shop, replacement golf clubhouse and 290 residential units on 37 acres. There would be a mix of detached four and five-bed family houses, townhouses and 87 apartments in three blocks. The developer is also looking to create a new road network and a new north-south pedestrian cycle route through the site to the clubhouse.
48 homes planned for Sandymount site
Developer Bryan Cullen is looking to build a residential scheme on a 1.2-acre site at Sandymount Castle Park on Gilford Road, Dublin 4. The development of 42 apartments and six houses in two three and four-storey blocks over basement has access from a gateway off Sandymount Castle Park. In October, Dublin City Council rejected Cullen's plans for a 57-unit residential development on the site as it would affect existing property in the area and had a "substandard" provision of public amenity space.
Major mixed-use scheme for Cork
Manor Park Homebuilders is to seek permission for a major mixed-use development on a five-acre site at CIÉ's Kent Railway Station complex at Horgan's Quay in Cork. It wants to build 276 residential units, eight retail units, two commercial units, a crèche, gym, open space areas, and two levels of basement car-parking. This involves the demolition of Kent Station Goods Depot, a protected structure. The residential units are in seven blocks at the east end of Horgan's Quay at its junction with Water Street. This is the first part of a €700 million proposal to redevelop Horgan's Quay with over 1,300 apartments and retail, office and leisure facilities on a 14-acre site which fronts the Lee.
