The proposed development seeks to demolish existing outbuildings on site and provide for the construction of 157 no. residential units, a childcare facility with a GFA of 187.3 sq.m., associated internal roads, pedestrian and cycle paths, open space, and all associated site and infrastructural works. The residential component of the development consists of 66 no. apartments, 46 no. duplex / apartment units and 45 no. houses, to be provided as follows: 17 no. 1-bed apartments; 19 no. 2-bed apartments; 30 no. 3-bed apartments; 30 no. 2 bed duplex / apartment units; 16 no. 3 bed duplex / apartment units; 10 no. 3-bed (Type B1, B2, B3, C and D) houses; 35 no. 4-bed (Type A and A1) houses. The 66 no. apartments are provided within 2 no. apartment buildings (B.01 and B.02) of 5 no. storeys in height, with undercroft and surface car parking. The childcare facility is located at the ground floor of Building B.01. The 46 no. duplex / apartment units are provided in 2 no. 4 storey duplex / apartment buildings (D.01 and D.02) comprising 2 storey duplex units over ground and first floor apartment units, and 1 no. 3 storey duplex / apartment building (D.03) comprising 2 storey duplex units over ground floor apartment units. The houses consist of 2 and 3 storey terraced, semi-detached, and detached houses. The proposal contains a total of 218 no. car parking spaces, including 90 no. in-curtilage and surface level spaces for the houses, and 128 no. undercroft and surface level spaces for the duplex / apartment units, the apartments and the childcare facility, and 5 no. motorbike parking spaces for the apartments. The proposal contains 282 no. bicycle parking spaces for the duplex / apartment units, apartments and childcare facility, and 4 no. bicycle parking spaces for 2 no. mid-terraced houses. Cycle parking for all the other houses is provided in-curtilage. The vehicular access to the development is to be provided from Cairnbrook residential estate to the west, including associated works to facilitate same. A vehicular entrance is also proposed from Springfield Lane to access the house proposed on the northern part of the site. Pedestrian and cycle links are proposed to Springfield Lane to the north (also providing a secondary emergency vehicular access) and to the permitted development (Reg. Ref.: PC/H/01/19) at Rockville Drive / Glenamuck Cottages to the south-west, and the proposal includes for the provision of infrastructure up to the application site boundary to facilitate future connections to adjoining lands to the north, east and south. Bike stores, apartment stores, childcare facility store, bin stores, plant rooms, ESB Substation and block cores are located at the undercroft and ground floor levels of the apartment buildings. The proposal includes free-standing bike and bin stores adjacent to the duplex / apartment units and mid-terraced houses. The proposed development includes private amenity space, consisting of balconies / terraces for all apartments and duplex / apartments and private gardens for the houses, public and communal open space, including children’s play areas and an ancillary play area for the childcare facility, PV panels at roof level of the apartment buildings and the houses, public lighting, and utilities infrastructure. The proposal includes all associated site and infrastructural works, including tie-ins to existing infrastructure in the Cairnbrook residential estate, foul and surface water drainage, the culverting of the on-site watercourse, attenuation tanks, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, internal roads, cyclepaths and footpaths.

The development consists of (i)construction of 1 no. detached two storey, three-bedroom pitched roof dwelling, (ii)the dwelling will be accessed by a new vehicular entrance, (ii) the dwelling will be served by 2 no. car parking spaces on permeable gravel paving to the front of the dwelling. (iii) permission is also sought for wastewater treatment system, private amenity space, landscaping, boundary treatment and all associated site development and ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development.This application is accompanied by a Section 47 agreement under the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) to prevent the implementation of a previously approved residential dwelling on adjacent land in the ownership of the applicant at Springfield, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18(D12/0332) which permitted a part two-storey, part single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development.

Permission for the (i) construction of