Avoca for Rathcoole: Avoca Handweavers is looking to build a store at Fitzmaurice Road, Rathcoole in Co Dublin.

It has applied to South Dublin County Council to build a three-storey mixed-use building with 1,027sq m (11,055sq ft) of retail on the ground floor, a 1,081sq m (11,636sq ft) restaurant, kitchen and staff areas. It is also looking to build 754sq m (8,116sq ft) of offices, and 307sq m (3,305sq ft) of exhibition space spread over the ground and first floor level. If successful, there would also be a landscaped courtyard to the south and farmer's yard to the west, and 230 surface car-parking spaces.

Blackrock plan before board

A proposal to build 11 detached houses in the grounds of Ferndene, Deansgrange Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin is currently before An Bord Pleanála. Five parties - Tim and Rita Conway, Adam O'Sullivan, Catherine and Marie O'Flynn, Brendan P Donohoe, and Joan and Tom McLoughlin - have appealed Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's decision to grant permission for the scheme, which would involve retaining the existing house.

Ferndene, which has four bedrooms and three reception rooms, sits on 1.4 acres and has frontage on the west side of Stradbrook, close to the junction of Stradbrook Road. A year ago the board refused Frank Cruess Callaghan - who has had a long association with Waterford Stanley - permission for 42 apartments and underground car-parking for 50 cars on the site.

Mixed-use scheme for D8

Redquartz Ltd is looking to build a seven block mixed-use scheme bounded by Mill Street, Warrenmount Lane and Warrenmount Convent in Dublin 8. It comprises 136 apartments, offices, retail and commercial units, and a crèche. Redquartz, whose directors are Paddy, Simon, Chris and David Kelly, propose to retain the Tenters public house and convert the upper two floors to retail and commercial use. It also plans to convert the craft works building into two retail/commerical/office units with a two-bed apartment overhead and another two-bed apartment at second storey level. Part of the derelict main building is to be an art gallery. A new east-west oriented street between Warrenmount Lane and Blackpitts is also part of the plan, as is basement parking for 149 cars.