Observation pack · Kilkenny County Council

IDA Business Park , Purcellsinch , Carlow Road

for the retrofit of the existing façade with insulated external render system and upgrade of existing glazing systems to meet current energy rating standards.

Observations close 15 Oct 2026 window closed

5 weeks from receipt (received 10 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 4 Nov 2026

The five-week window has passed. Late observations are returned unread. If the council has decided, the next door is the appeal window — but under s.37 only the applicant and those who made a valid observation may appeal.

The application

Reference: 2660580 · full record
Authority: Kilkenny County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 1.27 ha
Received: 10 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 18 Sept 2026, 15:44
Decision due: 4 Nov 2026
Decision: N/a

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at http://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660580/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660580 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. Kilkenny County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 15 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Kilkenny 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
C3 High technology	Industrial/Technology Park: To provide for industry and information technology related industrial and office development and ancillary services. The purpose is to encourage mainly services type employment on a campus environment	kilkenny city and county development plan 2021 2027	15 Oct 2021 → 14 Oct 2027
C3 High technology	Industrial/Technology Park: To provide for industry and information technology related industrial and office development and ancillary services. The purpose is to encourage mainly services type employment on a campus environment	kilkenny city and county development plan 2021 variation 8b	15 Oct 2021 → 15 Oct 2027

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: Kilkenny County Council development plan zoning · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:04

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Kilkenny County Council development plan zoning	—	4 Oct 2026, 23:04	open

Designations on or near the site

Recorded monument × 5
Church · Graveyard · Designed landscape - tree-ring

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660237	Conditional	12 Jun 2026	0	156 m	for Installation/erection of temporary office accommodation, using Portakabin Konstructa modules, on Veolia Water ireland Ltd property
2560702	Conditional	17 Apr 2026	0	387 m	to construct a new Padel facility consisting of 4 indoor courts with all associated indoor amenities including refreshment area, changing rooms, club room and reception. For the construction of 2 external courts with open space area, parking area, entrance, connection to the public sewer, water main and for all associated site works
2660028	Conditional	11 Mar 2026	0	447 m	of the installation of a new internal passenger lift, bridge, single office, and plant room at first floor level within an existing double height space, creation of openings within existing internal walls at ground and first floor level to connect to existing office areas, and the reconfiguration of the previously permitted (under Planning Ref. 25/60643) rear fire escape stairs for first to ground floor.
2560643	Conditional	27 Nov 2025	0	400 m	for the following works at Unit 02 and 04 Leggetsrath Business Park - Construction of a new single storey entrance lobby to front of unit 02 including signage, - New fire escape stairs to the rear of unit 02, - Removal of the unauthorised signage to the front of unit 04, and all associated site & ancillary works
2560386	Refused	19 Aug 2025	6	113 m	for proposed development to amend the existing Omada dwelling house by adding a new boundary wall and entrance gate and a new northeast boundary as well as to construct 6 No. new detached 3 storey dwelling houses and all associated works within the curtilage the existing site to be now accessed from the R712, Leggetsrath East, Kilkenny. R95 KHF8
2524	Conditional	11 Jun 2025	0	447 m	for the change of use from Office to Day Care Service & Ancillary Offices for the provision of daytime care for vulnerable persons and the erection of signage to the front elevation
2481	Conditional	18 Feb 2025	0	174 m	for the construction of a warehouse building on the Northwestern portion of the site of their existing warehouse and logistics facility, comprising a portal frame metal clad structure and including roof mounted PV Solar Cells. The development will include a 2988 m2 ground floor space, loading bay facilities located at the Southeastern end of the building, access through existing site entrance, the closing of the existing entrance to the Northwestern portion of the site, connection to existing services on site, modification to existing concrete yards, relocation of existing car park spaces and all associated site works
2460463	Conditional	21 Nov 2024	0	294 m	for the demolition of the 2No. existing IDA Ireland branded signs, erection of 1No. new IDA Ireland branded Totem sign at the site entrance and associated works at Purcellsinch, Kilkenny Road, Co. Kilkenny. The sign will be located within IDA Ireland lands as indicated in the drawings and particulars

Appeals

No appeals within 500 m in the last 5 years.

What has happened on this file

10 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 15 Oct 2026
10 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Kilkenny County Council before relying on it.