InvalidRetentionDecided 1 July 2025

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dundrum Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14, D14W895

Retention of a wellness facility featuring four wood-burning saunas, cold plunges, and changing areas.

D25A/0497/WEB · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council · Lodged 23 June 2025

Reference: D25A/0497/WEB
Authority: Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission for Retention
Received: 23 June 2025

Summary

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Retention permission is sought for a wellness facility trading as The Barrel Sauna. The development includes four wood-burning saunas, cold plunges, showers, changing areas, bicycle parking, and associated landscaping and signage.

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Official record

Development description

Balance saunas ltd. Trading as the barrel sauna intend to apply for retention permission for sauna and wellness development. The development to be retained consists of four wood burning saunas, cold plunges, showers and ancillary wellness, changing and relaxation area, twenty bicycle spaces, and 1 cargo bike space and all associated development works for the reconfiguration of the undercroft, advertising signage, site landscaping, mural, services and all ancillary development.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Objective MTCUC

“MTC To protect, provide for and-or improve major town centre facilities.”

National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area

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.

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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
Montrose, Dundrum, D14	Dec 2025	€362,670	43 m
20 Ophaly Court, Dundrum, Dublin 14	Aug 2025	€737,000	68 m
Riverdale, Dundrum, Dublin 14	Sept 2025	€838,000	80 m
18 The Oaks, Block D, Westfieldprice excludes VAT	Apr 2025	€383,260	120 m
10 Ophaly Court, Dundrum, Dublin 14	Jun 2025	€637,000	124 m
Apartment 14, Creevagh House, Dundrum Road	Dec 2025	€448,000	126 m
Apartment 18, Creevagh House, Dundrum Road	Sept 2025	€415,000	126 m
6 Alexandra Terrace, Dundrum, Dublin 14	Jun 2026	€565,000	133 m

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Application received23 June 2025
Decision issued1 July 2025

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