Observation pack · Kildare County Council

Suncroft Community Playing Field , Suncroft , Co Kildare

The development consists of the following works, planning permission for A) Demolition of existing shed structure to north eastern section of site, B) A proposed new 67m x 51m all-weather synthetic grass astro training pitch with 2.4m High secure perimeter fencing, C) permeable 1.5m footpath to Northern & Western sidelines along with all associated site development and facilitating works

Observations close 24 Nov 2026 10 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 20 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 14 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2661160 · full record
Authority: Kildare County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Site area: 1.34 ha
Received: 20 Oct 2026
Decision due: 14 Dec 2026

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at http://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661160/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2661160 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Kildare County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 24 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Kildare County Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

What the site is zoned

Code	Objective	Plan	In force
G4 Open space	Open Space and Amenity: To protect and provide for open space, amenity and recreation provision.	kildare county development plan 2023 2029 suncroft	28 Jan 2023 → 23 Mar 2029

An application that accords with the zoning objective is hard to resist on principle; one that does not may be a material contravention, which the council can only grant by the s.34(6) procedure with its own notice and window.

Source: Kildare County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Kildare County Council development plan zoning	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site within 100 m

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2675	Refused	10 Aug 2026		167 m	Extension of Duration: 6no. dwelling houses as follows: 3no. 3 bedroom 2 storey terrace houses, Block A on sites 1-3 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey 3 bedroom terrace houses, Block B on sites 4-6 inclusive. Connection to mains sewer, access roads, car parking and all associated site development works
2560015	Conditional	11 Jun 2025		213 m	for change of house types on site 11 to 17 inclusive from 7no. 2 storey detached house type J1 to 15no. 2 storey houses as follows, 12no. 2 storey, 3 bedroom semi detached houses, Type J2 on sites 11 to 22 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey, 3 bedroom terraced houses Type J5 on sites 23 to 25 inclusive. The above changes seek an additional 8no. houses on the land permitted for residential development under Pl ref No. 23/201. The site access, connection to services / sewers and all associated site development works remain unchanged as part of this application
2460985	Conditional	20 Jan 2025		365 m	for a change of use of a garage / workshop into habitable space to accommodate a family flat, a single storey extension link to the rear of the existing house, a car port, garage / workshop, and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground
2460808	Conditional	8 Oct 2024		10 m	for (a) The installation of Ball Stop netting to the existing 4 no. GFC goal posts (goal posts 1 & 2 are located within the GFC playing pitch 1 and goal posts 3 & 4 are located within the GFC playing pitch no. 2) and (b) All associated site development works
2460118	Conditional	5 Apr 2024		207 m	for modifications and change of use of an existing building to the current use as a dwelling and all associated site works
2360504	Conditional	15 Feb 2024		324 m	construction of new single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works
23201	Conditional	6 Nov 2023	41	141 m	28 no. dwellings, comprising of 23 no. one and a half storey four bed houses (approx. 182.7 sq.m each), 1 no. two storey detached four bed house (approx. 142.2sqm), 4 no. two storey semi-detached three bed houses (approx. 103.2sq.m each), and a crèche (approx. 247sq.m) and all ancillary site development works and connections to existing services all on a site with an area of approx. 2.53 hectares (6.25 acres). The proposed development forms part of a previously permitted development (planning references no's. Reg. Ref. 06/212 and extension of duration reference no. Reg, Ref. 11/991 refers as does Reg. Ref. 16/1084). Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of permission for 41 no. dwellings, comprising of 17 no. 2 storey, 4 bed detached houses, 18 no. 2 storey, 3 bed semi-detached houses, 4 no. 2 storey 3 bed terraced houses, 2 no. single storey, 2 bed elderly houses. Wholesale changes to the house designs, estate layout/roads layout, omission of the crèche building, landscaping, car parking, connection to existing services/sewers and all associated site development works
23880	Conditional	20 Oct 2023		0 m	for (a) Erection of 8Nr, 10m high floodlighting columns to existing playing pitch with associated light fittings, (b) removal of existing temporary lighting columns along with site infrastructure works, landscaping works and all associated site development and facilitating works.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
310593		Granted with conditions	17 Jan 2022	3 m

If neighbours here have appealed before and lost, the inspector's report on that case is the single most useful thing to read.

What has happened on this file

20 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 24 Nov 2026
20 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 3 Nov 2026, 23:01. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Kildare County Council before relying on it.