Malahide homes appealedFour parties appealed planning permission granted to Birchwell Ltd, headed by Bernard Carroll and Bryan Lynam, for a development of 322 residential units and outline permission for nine houses at Kinsealy Lane, Malahide, Co Dublin.
Malahide Community Forum was among the parties who appealed the scheme to An Bord Pleanála.
150 houses for Ashford
Brian Stokes is looking to build 150 houses at Inchinappa House, a protected structure, in Ashford, Co Wicklow. He is about to apply to Wicklow County Council for 101 two-storey houses, 55 three-bed townhouses, 19 three-bed semi-detached units, 24 four-bed semi-detached units, three five-bed detached units, 49 two and three-storey houses and 114 car-parking spaces on the eight-hectare site. He is also proposing a crèche with 11 car-parking spaces and a town park of 1.44 hectares.
Holiday resort rejected in Meath
Kilmoon Investments has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála to build a golf resort and tennis academy, and 28 holiday homes at Ashpark in Garristown, Co Meath. The site, 8kms north of Ashbourne, is a dairy farm divided into 13 fields and extending to just over 160 acres. The bord ruled that the development would introduce an urban form of development into a rural location and would be "contrary to the nature, scale and form of the existing development in the vicinity of the site". It also said it would exacerbate already heavy traffic at Kilmoon Cross, and would endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard.
D13 mixed-use scheme refused
A proposal to demolish the Bayside Neighbourhood Centre in Dublin 13 and redevelop it as 13 retail units and 106 apartments as well as offices and a squash centre has been refused by An Bord Pleanála.
Bayside Management Company was refused permission on the grounds of scale and density, and that the development is out of character with the existing area while the increase in retail floor space would represent overdevelopment of the site and be contrary to the development plan for the area.
