{"id":324977,"date":"2026-03-02T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324977\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:08:13","slug":"concerns-grow-in-wicklow-as-stalled-housing-development-attracting-rats-and-antisocial-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324977\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns grow in Wicklow as stalled housing development attracting rats and antisocial behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mount Usher View, Ashford.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2a4d9b54-4c00-427c-8795-1808386834c1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mount Usher View, Ashford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An uncompleted housing development in Ashford village is attracting antisocial behaviour and there has been constant complaints from people who have witnessed rats coming out of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Permission was originally granted for the Mount Usher View development in 2009 to Chieftain Construction Ltd for the demolition of existing site structures and construction of a new mixed use development consisting of 24 units and office\/retail space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mount Usher View, Ashford. An uncompleted housing development in Ashford village is attracting antisocial behaviour and there has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4657,112],"class_list":["post-324977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}