Kildare private cemetery developer wants a five year extension

The developer of a privately-run cemetery is seeking a five year extension for the project.

Kildare County Council is being asked to extend the planning permission for a new cemetery.

Amendoeira Developments wants KCC to prolong the permission.

Planning permissions have a five year time limit. 

In mid-2018, Amendoeira Developments got permission to develop a cemetery  comprising 1,448 plots adjoining the side of Bodenstown Church and Graveyard, which is also the burial place of Wolfe Tone..

The application also sought permission for 30 car park spaces, an overflow parking area with gates, a new entrance for vehicles, a maintenance yard, on a 3.75 acre site.

The  company has an address at Weir House in Clane and its directors are listed as Judy McCarthy and Seamus McCarthy.

It is planned that the proposed cemetery will be privately run and will be multi denominational.

According to the developer at the time a company would be specifically established to manage the day-to-day running of the graveyard.

An annual maintenance fee will be required which will provide a legal contract between the company the customer.

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This fee will cover grave opening, foundation and headstone, grave maintenance and maintaining a purchased register of interments.

It was proposed to provide an internal pedestrian link between the  proposed new cemetery and Bodenstown graveyard.

The  overflow car parking area is only expected to be used during the three Sundays in June when large numbers visit the area for political party commemorations at the grave of Wolfe Tone.

It says there is minimal adverse impact on local ecology and no obvious risk to subsurface archeology.