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Amendments to the previously permitted development (WCC Reg. Ref. 2360443) and comprises an increase in the floor area of the previously permitted ground and lower ground floor extension and courtyard together with minor modifications to the existing building.
It was Goulding’s love of nature that sparked the need for a design that took up as little ground space as possible, the building supported by the only rock outcrop available. The resulting design cantilevered over the river, leaving the natural vegetation of the river gorge untouched.
Goulding Summerhouse at Cookstown, Enniskerry…
e may be drowning in a sea of new housing estates around 
here, but some people are lucky enough to live by the river.
e may be drowning in a sea of new housing estates around 
here, but some people are lucky enough to live by the river.In the case of the Goulding Summerhouse in Kilcroney, the lucky inhabitants are directly related, ironically enough, to one of the country’s biggest developers.
The daughter of Johnny Ronan, Jodie Savage and her husband John first applied to turn this one-time restaurant into their dream home on the Dargle back in November 2023, and in May 2025, after the architect’s design was signed, very heavily sealed and WCC approved, the couple decided to add a little something extra to that original planning permit.
A move Jodie may have picked up from her pops.
Filed with Wicklow County Council on March 7th, application no.2560156 read…
Amendments to the previously permitted development (WCC Reg. Ref. 2360443) and comprises an increase in the floor area of the previously permitted ground and lower ground floor extension and courtyard together with minor modifications to the existing building. 
The extension at ground floor (26 sqm) provides for one additional double bedroom, a boot room with roof light above and minor adjustments to the layout, the extension at lower ground floor (69 sqm), provides for an additional family room and minor adjustments to the layout, together with a home gym and office (30.7 sqm ) accessed from the lower ground floor garden terrace which will be extended by 42sq.m. The proposed works include minor internal alterations to the interior of Goulding Summerhouse including a reconfigured kitchen with a new roof light above the kitchen. The proposed amendments also include reduced finished floor levels to the permitted extension (WCC Reg Ref. 2360443) at ground and lower ground floor, the demolition of the existing shed (20sqm) and relocation of the existing heat pump, site works and landscaping. 
This is in combination with all other associated site development works above and below ground. Goulding Summerhouse (Protected Structure RPS No. 03/37- Goulding House).
The extension at ground floor (26 sqm) provides for one additional double bedroom, a boot room with roof light above and minor adjustments to the layout, the extension at lower ground floor (69 sqm), provides for an additional family room and minor adjustments to the layout, together with a home gym and office (30.7 sqm ) accessed from the lower ground floor garden terrace which will be extended by 42sq.m. The proposed works include minor internal alterations to the interior of Goulding Summerhouse including a reconfigured kitchen with a new roof light above the kitchen. The proposed amendments also include reduced finished floor levels to the permitted extension (WCC Reg Ref. 2360443) at ground and lower ground floor, the demolition of the existing shed (20sqm) and relocation of the existing heat pump, site works and landscaping. 
This is in combination with all other associated site development works above and below ground. Goulding Summerhouse (Protected Structure RPS No. 03/37- Goulding House).Unsurprisingly, Wicklow Planning gave those changes the thumbs up. With a few conditions – such as paying €8,140 towards public infrastructures, external finishes being in accordance with the drawings and details submitted, and conservationists had to be on site. Plus, existing trees to be retained, the crappers all be in perfect eco order, and a lighting plan had to be submitted before works began, along with the all-important Construction Environmental Management Plan.
And one year later, making her pops now even prouder, Jodie and the hubby are looking for more changes to their glass house hideaway.
Only popping up on Wicklow Planning’s website now, despite having been filed on May 1st with submissions due on June 4th, planning application no.2660367 reads…
1. widening of the glazed link between the existing summer house and the permitted extension by 18m2. 2. relocation of the gym from the lower ground level terrace to below the proposed glazed link with associated changing room and store which provides for an increase in lower floor area by 11sqm. 3. reconfiguration of the internal spaces within the permitted extension including the bedrooms relocated to the ground floor and the utility, kitchenette, plant and family room located at the lower ground floor level with a new lift between the two floors and additional rooflights to the terrace. 
4. revisions to the external hard and soft landscaping works and an increase in the area of the lower terrace to 233m2. This is in combination with all other associated site development works above and below ground.
4. revisions to the external hard and soft landscaping works and an increase in the area of the lower terrace to 233m2. This is in combination with all other associated site development works above and below ground.Built in 1972 and ’73, this beautiful summer house was originally designed by Scott Tallon Walker for Sir Basil Goulding, a renowned gardener and avid art collector.
Sir William Basil Goulding
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Goulding family ran a restaurant there in the 80’s.
How can land be so expensive when there is loads of it in ireland
That’s a lot of “minor” adjustments. Almost considered a major change