749 homes for Stepaside siteCavan-based builder P Elliott and Co is looking to build a massive residential development on 12 hectares at Murphystown and Woodside in Stepaside, Co Dublin.
The planning application proposes 749 residential units, including 616 apartments in 28 blocks ranging in height from three to eight storeys. There would also be seven three-bed townhouses in a three-storey block and 126 houses in a mix of two and three-storey buildings, with a mix of two, three and four-bed units.
The developer is also looking to build a community centre, crèche, a clubhouse to cater for a football pitch area, a café and 10 retail units.
Also part of the application is 1,317 car-parking spaces (952 at basement level and 365 at surface level).
Plan for Dalkey tramyard appealed
The planning saga of the Old Tramyard site on Castle Street, Dalkey, Co Dublin, continues. Dalkey Community Council is one of three appellants to An Bord Pleanála against a development of 23 apartments and a commercial/retail space in three blocks on the site. This would involve the developers, J & P Monaghan and R Shiels, demolishing former tram sheds on the 0.57-acre site. They are also looking to temporarily lift and re-instate the tramlines and gate piers, iron gates and cobble stones.
Dalkey Community Council says Dalkey is a conservation area and the tram tracks and gateway are protected structures, as is the nearby Dalkey Castle and Heritage Centre and the Queen's pub. It says the height of the proposed development would dominate the Queen's pub and surrounding two-storey houses.
It also says the proposal is a variation of the theme refused by An Bord Pleanála on three previous occasions.
Green light for yacht club
The Trustees of the Royal St George's Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire have been given the thumbs-up by An Bord Pleanála to extend and alter its mid 19th century clubhouse overlooking the harbour, which is a protected structure.
However, the planning board has revised some of the planning conditions. An Taisce had appealed some aspects of the planning permission, saying the proposed pre-patinated copper roof would be visually dominant and the size of the extension would interfere with public views of the harbour. An Bord Pleanála ruled that the finishes to the parapets of the proposed extension should be of natural, finished copper not pre-patinated copper.
