RefusedApartmentsDecided 14 September 2016

Site located at Units 60, 66, 67 Fourth Avenue, And Sites 69 & 70 Cookstown Road, As well as vacant lands, Cookstown Industrial Estate, Tallaght, Dublin 24

Large mixed-use development with 246 apartments and commercial units in Cookstown.

SD16A/0270 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 29 July 2016

Reference: SD16A/0270
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 29 July 2016
Residential units: 246
Floor area: 28139.3 m²

Summary

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Permission is sought for a major mixed residential and commercial development of 38,207.1 sqm. The proposal includes 246 apartments across two buildings up to 7 storeys high, 3 commercial units, community rooms, crèches, and underground parking.

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Storeys: 7

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Official record

Development description

Mixed residential and commercial development (gfa 38,207.1sq. M) providing a total of 246 apartments in 2 separate buildings, 3 commercial units, 2 community rooms, 2 crèches and 2 esb substations, along with landscaped courtyards (containing a surface bicycle store to each site), underground car parking, providing an overall total of 233 parking spaces, refuse stores and plant areas. Site a with frontages to fourth avenue and cookstown road comprises a total of 148 apartments (14 studios, 27 one bed, 95 two bed and 12 three bed), all with private balcony spaces in a building with a maximum height of 7 stories. (total gfa of 23,483.4m2). 2 commercial units of 333m2 and 197m2, 1 community room of 44.8m2 and 1 crèche of 194.6m2 with dedicated open space, are proposed at ground floor level. An esb substation is proposed at ground floor level to service site a. The landscaped courtyard contains bicycle store for 44 bicycles. An underground carpark serviced off fourth avenue, contains 148 car parking spaces (of which 19 are disabled) and refuse stores. Site b with a frontage to cookstown road comprises a total of 98 apartments (10 studios, 26 one bed, 54 two bed and 8 three bed) all with private balcony spaces in a building with a maximum height of 7 stories (total gfa of 14,723.7m2). 1 community room of 29.8m2 and 1 crèche of 147m2 with dedicated open space, are proposed at ground floor level. An esb substation is proposed at ground floor level to service site b. The landscaped courtyard contains bicycle store for 94 bicycles. An underground carpark serviced off cookstown road contains 85 carparking (of which 13 are disabled) spaces and refuse stores. Proposals also included the provision of a new road linking the existing cookstown road to belgard square north, a new road to southern boundary of unit 69, a new pedestrian walkway to the southern boundary of units 66 and 67, (which will also allow for the servicing of the proposed esb substation for site a) and the provision of a new public park (0.7175ha). The development also includes the demolition of all existing industrial units and all associated site development works.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

REGENRE

“To facilitate enterprise and/or residential led regeneration”

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

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
56 Exchange Hall, Belgard Sq North, Tallaght Dublin 24	May 2026	€260,000	129 m
59 Exchange Hall, Belgard Sq, Tallaght Dublin 24	Oct 2025	€280,000	129 m
Apt 91 Exchange Hall, Belgard Square, Tallaght	May 2026	€235,000	129 m
90 Exchange Hall, Belgard Sq, Tallaght Dublin 24	May 2025	€185,000	129 m
22 Exchange Hall, The Exchange, Belgard Sq North Dublin 24	Mar 2025	€227,000	149 m
77 Exchange Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24	May 2026	€242,500	149 m
43 Exchange Hall, Belgard Sq North, Tallaght Dublin 24	May 2025	€180,000	149 m
51 Exchange Hall, The Exchange, Belgard Sq North Dublin 24	Feb 2025	€191,000	149 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

Timeline

Application received29 July 2016
Decision due22 September 2016
Decision issued14 September 2016

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