GrantedInfrastructureDecided 20 November 2008

Rathcoole, Co. Dublin

Construction of a major GAA facility with 4 floodlit pitches, an indoor pitch, and a 3-storey clubhouse with a 1,018-seat stand.

SD08A/0153 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 24 October 2008

Reference: SD08A/0153
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 24 October 2008
Floor area: 3447 m²

Summary

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This large-scale sports development includes four floodlit GAA pitches, an indoor pitch facility, a maintenance building, and a perimeter walking track. It also features a three-storey clubhouse with changing rooms, a gym, a shop, and a spectator stand to accommodate approximately 1,018 people.

Infrastructuresportsgaaclubhousefloodlights

Storeys: 3

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Official record

Development description

4 no. Floodlit gaa pitches comprising: pitch no. 1 (160m x 90m/lux level 1000
4 no. 30m high columns per pitch); pitch nos. 2, 3, 4 (160m x 90m/lux level 500
12 no. 20m high columns per pitch; 2 no. Speed training areas; 8 no. Ball stop nets (12m x 30m); a scoreboard; a hurling training alley (12m x 20m); an indoor pitch facility (c. 1000sq. M. ) in a stand alone 10.15m high building; a single storey maintenance building (c. 137sq. M. ); a perimeter walking track; an entrance sign and a 3 storey clubhouse facility. The 3 storey clubhouse facility (c. 2310sq. M. ) will include 10 no. Changing rooms, toilet facilities, shower rooms, a gym, ice bath, physiotherapy room, medical room, first aid room, reception, referees room, warm up room, team locker room, 2 no. Meeting rooms, general purpose room, shop, kitchen, 5 no. Stores, managers office, office, finance room, media room, viewing terrace and a stand to accommodate approx. 1018 people. The proposal includes an emergency access road onto the roundabout (part of rathcoole distributor road) at the southeast boundary, a c. 0.1km extension to the side road off the proposed distributor road of 7.75m wide with a 1.75m footpath, 1.75m cycle track, 2m grass verge either side serving a new south dublin county council car park facility (65no. Car parking spaces) and a 2m wide footpath connecting the car park to rathcoole park. The clubhouse facility will be accessed via this road extension and will provide 244no. Car parking spaces, 9 no. Coach spaces and a bicycle rack all at surface level. The proposal includes hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments and all other associated site development works including construction of 112m of foul sewer, north of the site, along footpath in rathcoole park to the junction between coolamber drive and beechwood lawns to serve the development all on a c. 10.82 hectare site bounded by rathcoole park to the north and west, the proposed new rathcoole distributor road to the south and agricultural lands to the east

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

RES-NR1

“To provide for new residential communities in accordance with approved area plans”

National zoning type: New/proposed 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.

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
53 Beechwood Lawns, Rathcoole, Dublin	May 2025	€490,000	318 m
77 Beechwood Lawns, Rathcoole, Dublin	Jul 2025	€500,000	367 m
32 Millrace Park, Saggart, Dublin	Jun 2025	€276,000	373 m
39 Millrace Park, Saggart, Dublin	Aug 2025	€330,000	385 m
9 Beechwood Lawns, Rathcoole, Dublin	Jul 2025	€525,000	396 m
24 Millrace Park, Saggart, Dublin	Jun 2025	€430,000	409 m
19 Coolamber Rd, Rathcoole, Dublin	Feb 2026	€630,000	446 m
100a Mill Rod, Saggart, Co Dublin	Oct 2025	€300,000	448 m

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Key dates

Timeline

Application received24 October 2008
Further information requested28 April 2008
Further information received24 October 2008
Decision issued20 November 2008
Grant issued2 January 2009

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