{"id":506631,"date":"2026-06-18T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506631\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:36:15","slug":"planning-sought-for-major-housing-development-in-killarney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506631\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning sought for major housing development in Killarney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry County Council has received a planning application for a major new housing development in Killarney.<\/p>\n<p>Dipharma Unlimited Company has applied for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/planning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planning permission<\/a> to build 259 new residential units in the town at Countess Road.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed development consists of 103 two-storey houses, as well as 156 apartments.<\/p>\n<p>The plans show that the houses will consist of\u00a0three bedrooms, while the apartments will be a mix of\u00a0one and\u00a0two- bed units.<\/p>\n<p>Planning is also being sought for a single-storey cr\u00e8che on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed additional works include a 277 space car park, with 59 electric vehicle charging spaces, and provision of bicycle parking.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle access to the proposed development will be via one entrance from Countess Road (L3904), with the entrance design including a raised pedestrian crossing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrycoco.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry County Council<\/a> is due to decide on the application by the 5th of August.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry County Council has received a planning application for a major new housing development in Killarney. Dipharma Unlimited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,216518],"class_list":["post-506631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-major-housing-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506631","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=506631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}