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Baskin Lane, Cloghran, Swords, Co. Dublin

Development of a football training facility in Swords with a clubhouse, three pitches, floodlighting, and a 64-space car park.

F25A/1081E · Fingal County Council · Lodged 21 November 2025

Reference: F25A/1081E
Authority: Fingal County Council
Register status: In progress
Type: Permission
Received: 21 November 2025

Summary

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The project comprises a new clubhouse with changing rooms, a gym, and offices, alongside two grass pitches and one artificial pitch. It also includes a new vehicular entrance, a car park for 64 cars and 2 coaches, pitch floodlighting, and associated landscaping.

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Official record

Development description

The development of a football training facility comprising: (a) clubhouse with changing, toilet and shower facilities, office space, gym, recovery room, video room, stores; (b) provision of 2 no. Grass pitches and 1 no. Artificial surface pitch; (c) partial removal of hedgerows to facilitate permeability through the site and create a new vehicular entrance from baskin lane; (d) provision of car park with 64 no. Car spaces and 2 no. Coach spaces; (d) provision of lighting throughout the site including pitch floodlights; (e) landscaping, stop nets, fencing and boundary treatments, suds drainage and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development. This planning application is accompanied by a natura impact statement (nis).

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

GB - Green BeltHA

“Protect and provide for a Greenbelt”

National zoning type: Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape

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
Woodlawn, Baskin Lane, Cloghran	Feb 2025	€690,000	500 m

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Application received21 November 2025
Decision due23 January 2026

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