UK Council to build apartments on housing estate’s only green space

The South Kildare Labour Party representatives kindly got in touch with the planning team at Kildare County Council on the resident’s behalf.
Questions included whether the greens in the Kingsgrove Graysland Estate could be built on in the future.
As a complete housing estate was dropped into the middle of the estate without the resident’s prior knowledge, many people are concerned at the way the Council Planning Department behave.
Questions arose from the Council’s first response, but the queries we sent back have not been responded to in the meantime.
One concern residents have expressed is whether planning can be applied for in the future to change the use of the green areas on the estate which the Council claim are protected under the terms of the original planning permission.
There are many similarities between how local government operates in the UK and Ireland.
It is somewhat alarming then to read on one estate the London Borough of Southwark is planning to build apartments on the only green space that the residents have, under the infill provision in planning guidelines.
The government in Ireland also has an infill policy which is referred to in the Athy Local Area Plan.
The story was in the news because the Southwark Cabinet Minister for Housing used a fake Twitter account to undermine and attack the residents who were protesting over the plans which would see them without any green space.
Our concern is really quite simple, can the same happen here?
Once the government makes a policy, and the local authority weaves that policy into the Local Area Plan then the Council can justify any actions that they claim are facilitating the implementation of the agreed policy.
You can read the full story here: https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/exclusive-southwark-housing-chief-quits-after-south-london-press-investigation-of-twitter-account/