Rural Housing Estates
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A small town in mid-Kerry, application to build to 40 house estate about a mile from the centre of a small village (20 or so miles from Tralee):
– No sewerage infrastructure (plans to build one eventually with a holding tank in the mean time)
– Access on a small country road already handling too much traffic as it is due to a council waste transfer station. With the traffic generated, especially large waste lorries, it is impossible to safely walk to the village. Of course the local school is already overcrowded. No formal plans to improve any of this.
– Estate would be right next to an ESB transformer station and the associated health risk and noise pollution (constant hum).How has it become acceptable to place estates designed for the edge of major town in small little villages? One off houses are destroying the countryside, this seems as bad or worse (?).
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It is not quite as bad as 20 one-off houses but the council will eventually have to:
Pay for a full mile of sewerage pipe cost ?
Widen/upgrade the road cost?
Higher waste collection costs?Who is developing this?
A commercial developer could hardly claim that it is based on social need and that it will be occupied by the applicant and not sub-let or otherwise disposed of. It all sounds like an entry to the twilight zone or that estate West of Swords between Rolestown and St Margrets that was developed 30 years ago 2 miles from Swords, its still in the middle of nowhere.
What is the Zoning of the land?
What are Kerry Co Co doing with the cash they are taking from developers under part v as amended in 2002 to provide affordable housing on zoned and serviced lands?
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These housing estates which are pegged onto the sides of towns are ridiculous. They create mini Dublin’s and sprawl out in the same fashion. The low density sends shivers up my spine. The alternative is to follow the traditional designs in small country towns but to upgrade them to modern standards, You know, those terraced houses, usually made of blocks, clad in concrete and not painted for 20 years.
Still, prefer to see what’s happening than more one off houses. -
I don’t understand the economics of building low density housing estates. When a developer owns a land tract beside a small town consisting of terraced houses built to 2/3/4 floors, why would he not continue building in that fashion, and gain from the higher number of dwellings? Do rural councils zone the land beside their towns and villages for sprawl?
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