GrantedRetentionDecided 15 September 2020

The Fern Dean Nursing Home and site of Rockford House (demolished), Dean's Grange Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

Retention of the demolition of Rockford House and permission for a 2-3 storey nursing home extension.

D20A/0516 · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council · Lodged 24 July 2020

Reference: D20A/0516
Authority: Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission for Retention
Received: 24 July 2020

Summary

AI-generated

Retention permission is sought for the demolition of Rockford House. Planning permission is also sought for a 2-3 storey extension to the Fern Dean Nursing Home, accommodating 23 bedrooms, communal rooms, and partial reconstruction of Rockford House.

Retentionnursing homedemolitionextension

Storeys: 3

Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.

Official record

Development description

Retention permission and permission for development. Retention permission is sought for demolition of rockford house. Permission is sought for:- construction of a 2-3 storey extension to fern dean nursing home, to include partial reconstruction of rockford house. The extension will accommodate 23 nursing home bedrooms (23 bedspaces) and communal rooms and will be as permitted under planning ref. D19a/0430; loss of 2 bedrooms within existing nursing home to provide connections to extension, re...

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Objective ARS

“A To provide residential development and improve residential amenity while protecting the existing residential amenities”

Objective set by the COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

Read the zoning objectives in the development plan

Built & sold

What happened next

Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
Errigal, 1 Rowan Park Ave, Blackrock	Oct 2025	€1,300,000	46 m
4 Rowan Park, Blackrock, Dublin	Jun 2025	€980,000	81 m
49 Rockville Crescent, Blackrock, Dublin	Sept 2025	€920,000	103 m
18 Rowan Park Ave, Blackrock, Dublin	Apr 2026	€1,250,000	144 m
12 Rockford Park, Blackrock, Co Dublinnot full market price	Aug 2025	€180,000	152 m
53 Rockville Dr, Newtownpark Ave, Blackrock	Jun 2025	€1,050,000	153 m
Ard Cloc, Stradbrook Rd, Blackrock	Jun 2025	€915,000	179 m
Cuan, Stradbrook Road, Blackrock	Jan 2026	€1,565,000	179 m

Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.

Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.

Key dates

Timeline

Application received24 July 2020
Decision issued15 September 2020

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.