SHD3ABP-305725-19: (i) Demolition of the existing industrial buildings (2,518sq.m);(ii) Construction of a 'build-to-rent' housing development providing a total of 245 residential apartments (comprising 69 studio units, 56 one-bed units and 120 two-bed units) in a six to eleven storey building over basement. Each apartment has associated private open space in the form of a ground floor terrace or a balcony and has access to 21 communal amenity spaces (totalling 880sq.m), including a communal gym (82.5sq.m), and a ground floor level landscaped courtyard. The development is served by an underground carpark (accessed from the Cookstown Road extension currently under construction) providing a total of 79 parking spaces (including 75 standard spaces and 4 mobility impaired user parking spaces), and 468 bicycle spaces (388 resident spaces at basement level and 80 visitor spaces at ground floor level in the central courtyard and on street);(iii) 2 commercial units (comprising 129.4sq.m and 126.5sq.m and accommodating Class 1, 2 and 8 uses as per the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001-2019, as amended) at ground floor level; (iv) associated site and infrastructural works are also proposed which include: foul and surface water drainage; attenuation tanks; lighting; landscaping; boundary fences; plant areas; ESB substations; internal hard landscaping, including footpaths and street furniture; and all associated site development works.
Units 66 & 67 Fourth Avenue, Cookstown Industrial Estate, Tallaght, Dublin 24
DecisionRefuse permission
Decided13 February 2020
Application typeSHD3-Application to ABP
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