A significant upgrade of Conor McGregor’s home in Co Kildare, complete with a cinema, bar and two swimming pools, will not have any undue impact on residents, states a revised planning application by the mixed martial arts fighter.
Documentation lodged with Kildare County Council shows he wants to demolish his existing five-bedroom home at The Paddocks, Castledillon, Straffan, and replace it with a six-bedroomed “family home”.
The new home, being designed by Tyler Owens Architects, is to be a two-storey over basement house complete with 19.6m indoor swimming pool, a 21m outdoor swimming pool and a cinema. The basement is to include car parking, a bar, games area and ancillary rooms.
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McGregor paid €3 million for The Paddocks in 2019.
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The planning documentation shows that his staff are to be housed in a nearby home at number 5 Castledillon “which is now also in the full ownership of the applicant”. The Residential Property Price Register shows it was purchased for €1.65 million in June 2022.
In response to the proposal for the new home at The Paddocks, council planners last July wrote to McGregor advising him the design and scale of the proposed home did not comply with the Kildare County Development Plan.
The council requested he submit revised proposals which take account of the plan and submit a comprehensive design statement.
The submission, in response, does not include any proposals to reduce the scale of the home. Instead, it says it is clear from revised photomontages submitted that the site “has the capacity to comfortably absorb the proposed dwelling without resulting in any undue impacts or dis-amenity to surrounding residents”.
It argues the planned home “is largely screened from the view from the adjacent public road and neighbouring properties, any intermittent views are further obscured to the presence of existing and proposed supplementary planting”.
The council is due to decide on the application later this month.
In the High Court last November, a jury found against McGregor in the civil rape case taken by Dublin woman Nikita Hand.
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She was awarded nearly €250,000 in damages after the jury found he raped her in a Dublin hotel in December 2018. He has until next month to appeal.
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