GrantedCommercialDecided 27 February 2020

Lands south of Stocking Avenue, Woodtown, Dublin 16

Construction of a neighbourhood centre with a retail unit, creche, and community facility.

SD19A/0345 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 31 January 2020

Reference: SD19A/0345
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: In progress
Type: Permission
Received: 31 January 2020
Floor area: 2056 m²

Summary

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Construction of a neighbourhood centre featuring a single-storey convenience retail unit and a three-storey mixed-use building. The mixed-use building will house a creche on the ground and first floors, and a community facility on the second floor. The development includes 60 car parking spaces, 46 bicycle spaces, a children's play area, and landscaping.

Commercialretailcrechecommunity centreparking

Storeys: 3

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Official record

Development description

Construction of a neighbourhood centre comprising: a single storey convenience retail unit (c. 1,479sq. M gfa); a mixed use three storey building (c. 577sq. M. Gfa) comprising a creche at ground and first floor levels (c. 385sq. M. Gfa) and a community facility at second floor level (c. 192sq. M. Gfa). Provision of: esb substation and switch room; vehicular and pedestrian access/egress and associated circulation routes and set-down area; 60 car parking spaces; 46 bicycle spaces; electric vehicle charging points; ancillary floor areas within the convenience retail unit (including plant areas, circulation areas, store rooms, comms room, locker room, offices, canteen, waste storage area); ancillary floor areas within the creche/community centre (including plant areas, circulation areas, staff room, offices and storage areas); children's play area; lighting; all hard and soft landscaping; provision of sustainable urban drainage systems (suds); improvement of the existing vehicular/pedestrian entrance on stocking avenue (providing access to white pines and the subject proposal) including the provision of new piers and railings; and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including changes in level and associated retaining features, boundary treatments and associated site servicing (foul and surface water drainage and water supply); on site principally bounded by stocking avenue to the north; an internal access road associated with the white pines residential development (under construction) to the east and stocking wood residential scheme to the south and west.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

LCDC

“To protect, improve and provide for the future development of Local Centres”

National zoning type: District, neighbourhood centre

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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Built & sold

What happened next

Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.

Built — construction complete

A commencement notice records works starting on 30 July 2020. A completion certificate was lodged on 19 April 2022.

Notified floor area: 1,610 m²

4 commencement notices are linked to this development.

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
22 Stocking Wood Walk, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16	Oct 2025	€580,000	111 m
23 White Pines Meadow, Stocking Avenue, Rathfarnham	Feb 2025	€590,000	113 m
19 White Pines Meadow, Stocking Avenue, Rathfarnham	May 2026	€680,000	119 m
7 Stocking Wood Walk, Stocking Avenue, Rathfarnham	Sept 2025	€705,000	129 m
19 Stocking Wood Heath, Stocking Avenue, Rathfarnham	Apr 2026	€750,000	133 m
1 White Pines Heights, Stocking Avenue, Rathfarnham	May 2025	€680,000	133 m
13 Stocking Wood Manor, Stocking Wood, Rathfarnham Dublin 16	May 2025	€366,667	146 m
4 White Pines Heights, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham	Dec 2025	€715,000	170 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 received31 January 2020
Further information requested18 December 2019
Further information received31 January 2020
Decision due27 February 2020
Decision issued27 February 2020
Grant issued9 April 2020

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