GrantedInfrastructureDecided 12 December 2007

Lands bounded by Castlegate Downs, To The North, Castlegate Terrace To The East, Adamstown Station Road To The South, And Future Dev. Lands To The West, Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin

Construction of a 1,000-pupil post-primary school and community centre in Adamstown.

SDZ07A/0002 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 15 November 2007

Reference: SDZ07A/0002
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: SDZ Application
Received: 15 November 2007

Summary

AI-generated

The development consists of a 3-storey post-primary school of approximately 7,682 sq m and a community centre of 1,529 sq m. The school will feature 27 general classrooms, 36 specialist classrooms, a library, offices, and bicycle parking.

Infrastructureschoolcommunity centreeducation

Storeys: 3
Floor area: 9,211 m²

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

Construction of a post primary school with capacity for c. 1000 pupils and a community centre of c. 1,529 m2, together with ancillary works. The post primary school is to be constructed in a 3 storey building of c. 7,682 m2 containing 27 no. General purpose classrooms (c. 1,317 m2 in total); 36 no. Specific purpose classrooms and associated backup area (c. 2,667 m2) including technology rooms, engineering rooms, science laboratories, computer rooms, maths rooms, art rooms, a music room, home economics rooms, social studies rooms and religion / meditation rooms; 25 no. Rooms (c. 664 m2 in total) for use as guidance suites, pastoral offices, learning support rooms and a library; and 9 no. Rooms (c. 400 m2 in total) for use as staff offices and meeting rooms; additional gross floorspace of c. 2,634 m2 is provided in the form of storage areas, toilet facilities, backup/service rooms, circulation floorspace and internal walls ducts and risers. Permission is also sought for single storey external store of c. 50 m2; and esb switch room and substation (c. 22 m2 in total) and bicycle racks with space for 100 bicycles, all of which are located within the school boundary. The esb rooms are accessed externally to the school grounds. Planning permission is also sought for the construction of a community centre of c. 1,529 m2 in one 2-storey building, located sw of the proposed post primary school. This building is intended to be shared use building for both the school and for the community, and will contain a multipurpose hall of c. 604 m2 a fitness room of c78 m2, 5 no. Community rooms with associated kitchens, toilets and storage (c. 281 m2 in total); toilets and changing areas (c. 127 m2 in total); additional storage areas of c. 56 m2, including storage for pe equipment; and a further c. 352 m2 of circulation areas, internal walls, boiler rooms, communications cupboards and electrical cupboards. Vehicular access to the school grounds from the south is provided from the permitted distributor roads surrounding the site permitted under planning reg ref. Sdz06a/5. A further vehicular entrance to the school ground is provided from the northern side via the road network permitted under planning reg ref sdz06a/6, although this is intended as an emergency access only. 71 no. Car parking spaces (22 permanent and 49 temporary pending provision of permanent parking within the adamstown district centre site) are provided for teaching staff in a bank of controlled parking accessed off adamstown station road. (sdz06a/5). Site development and landscape works are also proposed, including the provision of 1 no. Playing pitch of c. 2,043 m2 in a temporary configuration pending the relocation of the temporary car parking; 3 no. Basketball courts of c. 510 m2 each (c. 1,530 m2 in total); and 2 no. Attenuation tanks of 1,194 m2 in total. This application is being made in accordance with the provisions of the adamstown planning scheme 2003. The lands fall entirely within the boundaries of adamstown strategic development zone as defined by statutory instrument no. 272 of 2001.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

SDZRS

“To provide for strategic development in accordance with approved planning schemes”

National zoning type: Residential, mixed residential and other uses

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
10 Castlegate Downs, Adamastown Castle, Adamstown	Apr 2025	€372,000	92 m
126 Adamstown Avenue, Adamstown Square, Lucan	Mar 2026	€545,000	127 m
2 Stratton Grove, Adamstown, Co Dublin	Jul 2025	€361,000	128 m
16 Castlegate Terrace, Adamstown Castle, Lucan	Aug 2025	€412,000	137 m
133 Adamstown Ave, Lucan, Dublinnot full market price	Nov 2025	€380,000	137 m
24 Stratton Grove, Adamstown, Dublin	Jan 2025	€390,000	143 m
80 Adamstown Ave, Adamstown, Lucan	Oct 2025	€393,000	164 m
37 Stratton Walk, Adamstown Square, Lucan	Apr 2025	€415,000	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 received15 November 2007
Further information requested18 May 2007
Further information received15 November 2007
Decision due8 January 2008
Decision issued12 December 2007
Grant issued12 December 2007

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.