RefusedApartmentsDecided 14 December 2004

South Dublin Ford Centre, Whitechurch Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.

Construction of 85 apartments in two five-storey blocks in Rathfarnham.

SD04A/0803 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 22 October 2004

Reference: SD04A/0803
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Appealed
Type: Permission
Received: 22 October 2004
Residential units: 85
Floor area: 10939 m²

Summary

AI-generated

This major development proposal consists of 85 apartments across two five-storey blocks with roof gardens. The scheme includes 115 car parking spaces, a basement car park, landscaping, and a new footbridge over an adjacent stream.

Apartmentsapartmentsresidentialbasement

Storeys: 5

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

(a) block a will comprise of 5 storey with 3 storey projections at front and rear, having landscape roof gardens at 4th floor level - a total of 40 apartments consisting of 24 no. Two bedroom apartments, 12 no. One bedroom apartments, and 4 no. Three bedroom apartments: each apartment will have an individual balcony; (b) block b will comprise of 5 storey with 3 storey projections at front and rear, having landscape roof gardens at 4th floor level - a total of 45 apartments consisting of 32 no. Two bedroom apartments, 12 no. One bedroom apartments and 1 no. Three bedroom apartments: each apartment will have an individual balcony; (c) a total of 115 number car parking spaces, including 6 no. Spaces over ground floor and 109 no. Car spaces in basement car park with 85 no. Cycle spaces; (d) access to site and basement car park to be from whitechurch road, landscaping including new footbridge over the stream at the eastern boundary, a new pedestrian access to fonthill court at the western boundary of the site and new perimeter railings on the northern, eastern and southern boundaries incorporating gates to the entrance from whitechurch road.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

RESRS

“To protect and/or improve residential amenity”

National zoning type: Existing residential

Objective set by the South Dublin 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
12 Whitechurch Pines, Whitechurch Road, Rathfarnham	Oct 2025	€380,000	85 m
5 Whitechurch Pines, Whitechurch Rd, Dublin 14	Feb 2026	€385,000	87 m
Apt 1 Whitechurch Pines, Whitechurch Rd, Rathfarnham Dublin 16	Oct 2025	€403,000	91 m
51 Grange Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14	Jun 2026	€1,400,000	141 m
39 Grange Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14	Feb 2025	€617,000	167 m
10 White Church Abbey, Grange Park, Rathfarnham Dublin 14	Jan 2026	€580,000	169 m
4 Fonthill Abbey, Ballyboden Road, Rathfarnham	Jul 2025	€760,000	195 m
22 Grange Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14	Jul 2025	€738,000	201 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 received22 October 2004
Decision due15 December 2004
Decision issued14 December 2004
Appeal submitted19 January 2005
Appeal decided24 May 2005
Permission expiry29 May 2005

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.