Awaiting decisionRetentionDecided 25 January 2012

Montpelier, Bohernabreena, Dublin 24

Retention of a commercial riding school, stable buildings, arenas, office, and storage in Bohernabreena.

SD11A/0279 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 24 November 2011

Reference: SD11A/0279
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Appealed
Type: Retention
Received: 24 November 2011
Floor area: 634.7 m²

Summary

AI-generated

The applicant is seeking retention permission for the change of use of agricultural land to a commercial riding school. This includes retaining three stable buildings, two riding arenas, an office building with a septic tank, a storage building, and an access road.

Retentionriding schoolequestrianagriculturalcommercial

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

(1) retention of change of use of lands from agricultural to a commercial riding school; (2) three stable buildings; (3) two riding arenas; (4) office building with changing area and septic tank with pump system; (5) storage building; (6) access road with shared entrance to public road and all ancillary works; (7) six car parking spaces and one horse box space to accommodate proposed development; (8) this application includes a natura impact statement.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

HA-DMHA

“To protect and enhance the outstanding natural character of the Dublin Mountains Area”

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

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
Mount Pellier, Bohernabreena, Dublin 24	Jul 2025	€400,000	171 m
Friarstown, Bohernabreena, Dublin	Jun 2026	€500,000	442 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 received24 November 2011
Decision due27 January 2012
Decision issued25 January 2012
Appeal submitted18 April 2012
Appeal decided4 October 2012

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.