{"id":262894,"date":"2026-01-02T05:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:47:14","slug":"this-kildare-town-cannot-take-much-more-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262894\/","title":{"rendered":"This Kildare town &#8216;cannot take much more housing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals to provide more housing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildarenow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sallins<\/a> have been criticised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSallins can\u2019t take much more development,\u201d said Cllr Bill Clear, at a Naas Municipal District committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildarenow.com\/news\/local-news\/1977747\/delay-to-expansion-of-kildare-train-services-will-hit-quality-of-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Delay to expansion of Kildare train services &#8216;will hit quality of life&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that there are no places for people wishing to go on a GP patient list, there is no second level school and the primary school is full.<\/p>\n<p>He said these issues are creating a \u201clarge deficit\u201d adding \u201cwe have to start putting proper facilities in place.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said development levies paid by developers as part of planning permissions &#8220;should be ringfenced for Sallins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Kildare County Council, it was originally planned to provide 174 housing units there as part of the Kildare County Development Plan 2023-2029.<\/p>\n<p>But housing growth requirement guidelines, issued this year, proposes some 250 units in Sallins &#8211; in addition to the 174 units.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KCC official Jane O\u2019Reilly said the proposed increase \u201cwill be considered by KCC\u201d in January and the final figure agreed by the councillors \u201cwill inform the preparation of a new (housing) plan for Sallins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposals to provide more housing in Sallins have been criticised. \u201cSallins can\u2019t take much more development,\u201d said Cllr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,16210,2597,18,3847,19,17,3625,16209,16211],"class_list":{"0":"post-262894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-clane","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-housing","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kildare","16":"tag-naas","17":"tag-sallins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115823931699200525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}