GrantedApartmentsDecided 25 January 2024

Lands located to the southwest of the junction of Northwood Avenue and Northwood Cresecent/Northwood Park, Northwood, Santry, Dublin 9

Alterations to a previously approved office building to create a part-six, part-seven storey student accommodation building with 180 beds.

F23A/0652 · Fingal County Council · Lodged 20 December 2023

Reference: F23A/0652
Authority: Fingal County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 20 December 2023

Summary

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The proposal seeks to alter a previously approved four-storey office building into a part-six, part-seven storey mixed-use building. It will provide 180 student accommodation bed spaces across 35 units, alongside a revised creche layout, communal amenities, and 234 bicycle parking spaces.

Apartmentsstudent housingcrechehigh density

Residential units: 35
Storeys: 7

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Official record

Development description

Planning permission for alterations to previously approved development (reg. Ref. F18a/0438) comprising: (i) alterations to four-storey office building to provide for a part-six, part-seven storey mixed use building with revised layout and design, to facilitate the provision of 180 no. Student accommodation bed spaces between first and fifth floor levels contained within 35 no. Units comprising 10 no. Studio, 5 no. Two-bed (twodios) and 20 no. Eight-bed units; (ii) alterations to layout of previously approved creche and associated screened outdoor play area, provision of a reception/amenity area with associated outdoor seating area, with the inclusion of a vehicular set down area to the front of the building; (iii) revisions to roof plan to include pv panels and watertank; (iv) provision of communal amenity space by way of amenities rooms, games room, tv room, and study room at sixth floor level and reception area lounge, management room, bin store, laundry room, and parcel room at ground floor level to serve the student accommodation element of the proposal; (v) provision of 234 no. Bicycle parking spaces, outdoor amenity space and enclosed heat pump at ground floor level; (vi) revision of the parking area to provide 8 no. Car parking spaces situated to the front of the site; (vii) upgrade works to the east of the site along northwood crescent for the provision of a public footpath; and (viii) all associated works including suds, landscaping, planting and boundary treatments, infrastructure, lighting, foul/surface drainage, site works, necessary to facilitate the development. The residential element of phase 2 is currently under construction and does not form part of this alteration's application. Ai received 20/12/23

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

MRE - Metro and Rail Economic CorridorRE

“Facilitate opportunities for high-density mixed-use employment generating activity and commercial development and support the provision of an appropriate quantum of residential development within the Metro and Rail Economic Corridor.”

National zoning type: Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site

Objective set by the The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029 (2023–2029). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
44 Geraldstown Woods, Santry Ave, Dublin 9	May 2025	€220,000	137 m
Apt 1, Block A Birch Wood View, Northwood Avenueprice excludes VAT	Mar 2026	€7,400,000	139 m
Apartment 1 Block E, Geraldstown Woods, Santry	Oct 2025	€280,000	153 m
55 Geraldstown Woods Apts, Santry, Dublin 9	Jan 2025	€277,000	168 m
64 Geraldstown Woods, Santry Demesne, Dublin 9	May 2026	€279,000	178 m
4 Northwood Green, Santry, Dublin 9	Jul 2025	€535,000	186 m
70 Geraldstown Woods, Santry Dublin 9, Dublin	Jun 2026	€273,000	189 m
19 The Landey, Santry Cross, Dublin 9	Dec 2025	€310,000	201 m

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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

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Application received20 December 2023
Decision due25 January 2024
Decision issued25 January 2024

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