Backweston Park
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghcumper, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 35.1 ha
- 87 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 32,835 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Backweston Park, from 1,827 m² to 262,940 m² (26.29 ha, 64.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU (Agriculture)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Oct 2018Refused
a three bedroom, single storey, dwelling house, new site entrance off existing private access roadway and all associated site works, drainage etc., located on lands
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181290
14 Nov 2008Grant permission
Centrally relocate the existing Runways 07 and 25 to midway between the airport boundaries, incorporating the existing stopway, to include the provision of Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPIs). This will also include Runway End Safety Areas of 180 Metres. The change in runway layout will retain the present runway category (ICAO Code 2b) and aerodrome licensing requirements on aircraft size. Nothing in this application increase the size or capacity of aircraft to that currently using the airport. The runway distance will be 1199 Metres, the full extent of ICAO Code 2b limitations. This is Necessitated by the landing distance restrictions imposed by the use of Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPIs). The runway declared operational distances, as published in Aeronautial Information Publication Ireland, will not be increased by this application. This application is made solely in the interest of increased safety standards and the promotion of noise abatement. An EIS has been prepared in relation to this application.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD08A/0779
7 Jul 2006Declared withdrawn
Retention and completion of realignment of originally approved Cooldrinagh Lane with junction of Celbridge Road and removal and incorporation of the old road and adjoining private right of way into the adjacent gardens of the houses at the corner of the junction of Celbridge Road with Cooldrinagh Lane; and for new development consisting of the erection of 8 number flag poles (i.e. in two sets of 4), 2 no. stone signs, one denoting Cooldrinagh and the second denoting Weston Airport, 1 no. timber sign denoting Weston Airport, 2 no. directional signs for Weston Airport; for removal of existing hedge on Celbridge Road adjacent to airport and replacement with approximately 2.4m security fencing and replanting and replacement of 3 number entrance gates onto Celbridge Road with security type fencing gates.
Permission and retention · South Dublin County Council, SD05A/0420
31 Mar 2006Grant permission
The permission is sought for the temporary use of these lands as a park and ride facility for the period 19th - 24th September 2006 to facilitate the Ryder Cup Golf competition to be held at The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare. The temporary use of the lands for park and ride will involve use of grassed areas to accomodate parking, temporary use of existing aerodrome entrance, temporary use of secondary entrance to Westonpark House north of Blackweston Farm, temporary opening of 4no. former agricultural access points and existing emergency access between main aerodrome entrance and Cooldrinagh Lane onto the R403 Celbridge Road, laying of temporary "trakway" for feeder buses ferrying spectarors to the Ryder Cup event at the K-Club, erection of temporary mobile lighting, temporary fencing, temporary port-a-loo and other associated facilities (including 2no. temporary tent structures for administrative and security). Reinstatement of the lands and associated entrances onto the R403 to their existing condidtion is proposed following the Ryder Cup. Westonpark House is a Protected Structure. A separate application is being submitted to Kildare County Council for that part of the park and ride facility within the Kildare County Council administrative area.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD06A/0230
16 Nov 2005Grant permission for retention
Retention of tarmac, approx 3.5m wide to the hard shoulder at either side of the runaway for safety reasons. All works to take place on the grounds of Weston Airport.
Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD05A/0924
10 Feb 2003Grant permission
Demolition of existing hangars, construction of new hangars (15,741 m2), office and club house (1,125 m2), 180 car parking spaces and aircraft parking with new access off R403 and all associated development works. This revised notice refers to a larger site boundary including all lands in the ownership of Weston Ltd., and the location of the hangars to be demolished. This application is accompanied with an Environmental Impact Statement.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S01A/0822
2 May 2000Refuse permission
Retention of Hanger.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S00A/0284
10 Dec 1999Grant permission
Relocation of existing portacabins (2 no.) and containers (2 no.) to new site and for new car park.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S99A/0879
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Backweston Park.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Backweston Park.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Backweston Park.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2937 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Backweston Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Backweston Park
- Area
- 350,604 m² (35.06 ha, 86.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghcumper, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt South
- Electoral division
- Donaghcumper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Backstown (Co. Dublin), Backwestonpark (Co. Dublin), Ballymadeer, Coneyburrow, Leixlip Demesne
- Placenames
- Backweston Park on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.