Less Than 400 New Homes Delivered By Kildare County Council & Approved Housing Bodies Last Year - Report

Thursday, 22 June 2023 10:33

By Caoimhe Harney

The council has published its annual report for 2022

Some 372 new homes were delivered by Kildare County Council and Approved Housing Bodies last year, according to Kildare County Council's annual report for 2022.

In addition, 261 new homes were delivered through the social leasing programme.

The delivery of social housing as well as important work in the areas of homelessness, vacant and derelict properties, housing loans and grants continued to be a focus in 2022.

Expenditure on the grants programme increased from €4.25m in 2021 to €5.19m in 2022.

Kildare County Council delivered upgrades on 178 properties, through the Energy Retrofit Programme,

The council has published its Annual Report for 2022, giving an overview of the Council’s programme of work delivered in 2022.

Over €1m in grant funding was awarded to 54 businesses to support many areas of business development such as start-up, expansion & export marketing.

Some €4.2m in funding was secured to deliver the Athy Food, Drink & Skills Innovation Hub under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund.

When complete, the hub will act as a home for the countywide food cluster, an education hub and provide manufacturing space for 20 entrepreneurs.

Some 978 community grants were distributed throughout the year, providing funding of €1,956,003.

Kildare County Council launched ‘Brigid 1500’ in 2022, a programme of national and international events and initiatives to celebrate and commemorate St Brigid.

A significant Capital Project Programme was progressed by the Library Service in 2022 including refurbishment and extension for the URDF funded Naas Library and Cultural Centre.

136 groups and individuals participated in the Green Kilometre initiative in 2022, resulting in planting of over 800 native saplings to improve local biodiversity.

131 schools registered for the green schools programme working on environmental themes including litter and waste, energy and water reduction, biodiversity and sustainable travel.

Works got underway on the new Athy Distributor Road, which, upon completion, will provide two new roundabouts, new signalled crossroad junctions, approx. 3.4km of footpath and cycleway as well as an 80m single span steel bridge over the River Barrow.

Elsewhere, significant progress was delivered on capital projects including the Maynooth Eastern Ring Road, Celbridge to Hazelhatch Link Road as well as the Newhall Junction upgrade and junction improvement programme.

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