Newtown Centre/Newtown Square , Blessington Demesne , Blessington
Data updated 12 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
2560074 is a planning application for permission at Newtown Centre/Newtown Square , Blessington Demesne , Blessington, received by Wicklow County Council on 13 Feb 2025 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: a proposed development comprising 71 No. residential units and a retail/commercial space of approx. 96sq.m on a site of approx. 0.75 hectares adjoining generally the public road at Newtown Centre to the north, Newtown Square and apartments to the East and ‘Downshire Park’ residential development to the west and south. The residential development will consist of 35 No. 1 & 2 bedroom apartment units within a four storey building (Block 1), and 36 No. 2 & 3 bedroom duplex apartments within 3 No. three storey buildings (Blocks 2,3 & 4) comprising 5 No. 1 Bed Units, 48 No. 2 Bed Units and 18 No. 3 Bed Units together with all site development works and proposed access roads, car parking, bicycle parking, footpaths, bin storage, boundary treatments, public lighting, open space, soft and hard landscaping, electricity sub-station/switch room and new vehicular entrance onto the existing public road bounding the site to the north (Opposite Dunnes Stores) together with vehicular services access and provision for a future access to adjoining lands to the east from existing access road alongside the eastern site boundary and proposed connections to main services including surface water attenuation, foul sewers, surface water sewers and watermains. The council granted permission on 10 Feb 2026, with conditions. The five-week observation window closed on 20 Mar 2025. The register records an appeal (PL-500906-WW-26), decided: conditional. Within 500 m there are 60 other decided applications in the last five years.
Proposal
a proposed development comprising 71 No. residential units and a retail/commercial space of approx. 96sq.m on a site of approx. 0.75 hectares adjoining generally the public road at Newtown Centre to the north, Newtown Square and apartments to the East and ‘Downshire Park’ residential development to the west and south. The residential development will consist of 35 No. 1 & 2 bedroom apartment units within a four storey building (Block 1), and 36 No. 2 & 3 bedroom duplex apartments within 3 No. three storey buildings (Blocks 2,3 & 4) comprising 5 No. 1 Bed Units, 48 No. 2 Bed Units and 18 No. 3 Bed Units together with all site development works and proposed access roads, car parking, bicycle parking, footpaths, bin storage, boundary treatments, public lighting, open space, soft and hard landscaping, electricity sub-station/switch room and new vehicular entrance onto the existing public road bounding the site to the north (Opposite Dunnes Stores) together with vehicular services access and provision for a future access to adjoining lands to the east from existing access road alongside the eastern site boundary and proposed connections to main services including surface water attenuation, foul sewers, surface water sewers and watermains
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- Conditional on 10 Feb 2026
- Permission expires
- 7 Jul 2031
- Site (from polygon)
- 7,500 m²
- Location precision
- site (coords_polygon)
Timeline
- 13 Feb 2025New applicationObservation window closed 20 Mar 2025
- 8 Apr 2025Further information requested
- 2 Sept 2025Further information received
- 10 Feb 2026DecisionAppeal window closed 10 Mar 2026
- 5 Mar 2026Appeal lodged
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Appeal
The register records appeal PL-500906-WW-26 (status unknown) but we have not matched the ACP case yet.
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
No zoning objective covers this site in the current plan.
Designations within 250 m
OPW flood extent nearby — flag only (licence); floodinfo.ie.
- NIAH-recorded building · 16
- Radon risk area · 1
- Recorded monument · 14
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 166050). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: http://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560074/0.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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