GrantedApartmentsDecided 24 November 2025

Glen Abbey Complex, Belgard Road, Cookstown Industrial Estate, Dublin 24, D24 W2XA

Extension of duration for the demolition of industrial buildings and construction of 170 build-to-rent apartments and a crèche.

SHD3ABP-309916-21/EP · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 29 September 2025

Reference: SHD3ABP-309916-21/EP
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Extension Of Duration Of Permission
Received: 29 September 2025

Summary

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An extension of duration is sought for a development comprising the demolition of existing industrial and office buildings and the construction of a 170-unit build-to-rent apartment scheme across blocks of 4 to 7 storeys, including a crèche and basement parking.

Apartmentsapartmentsbuild to rentcrechedemolition

Residential units: 170
Storeys: 7
Floor area: 13,880 m²

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Official record

Development description

Demolition of the existing industrial and commercial office buildings totalling c. 4,628sqm; construction of a build-to-rent housing development comprising 170 apartment units and crèche arranged in 2 blocks across 4-7 storeys over basement car park (total gross floor area c. 13,880sq. M excluding basement); the residential development consists of: 9 x1 bedroom studio apartments; 94 x1 bedroom/2 person apartments; 2 x2 bedroom/3 person apartments; 34 x2 bedroom/4 person apartments; 24 x2 bedroom/4 person duplex apartments and 7 x3 bedroom/5 person apartments with north, south, east and west facing terraces/balconies throughout; internal communal amenity spaces at ground and fourth floor levels comprising reception, gym, lounge, cinema/tv room, events rooms and ancillary areas; external communal open space including children's play areas and informal amenity spaces at ground floor level between blocks a and b; communal roof garden at fourth floor level - total external communal open space c. 1,005sq. M; public open space at ground floor level to the east and south of block b totalling c. 1095sq. M; 1 creche with associated outdoor play area at ground floor level; 73 car parking spaces comprising 64 basement spaces, 4 accessible parking spaces and 5 visitor spaces at surface level; 354 bicycle spaces comprising 264 resident spaces at basement level and 90 visitor spaces at ground floor level; reconfiguration/removal of existing car parking to the north of the site and access road resulting in a total of 28 car spaces serving the adjoining site; all associated plant including heating centres, gas room, water storage room, break tank room, comms room and bin storage at basement level, esb substation and switch room at ground level and circulation spaces and stair and lift cores throughout; vehicular/pedestrian access to the east from belgard road. All existing vehicular entrances serving adjoining sites maintained. Fire/emergency and refuse vehicle access and pedestrian access to the south from colbert's fort; all associated site development and infrastructural works, services provision, foul and surface water drainage, extension to the foul network, access roads/footpaths, lighting, landscaping and boundary treatment 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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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
7 Redwood Court, Kilnamanagh, Tallaght	Oct 2025	€450,000	318 m
7 Mayberry Park, Kilnamanagh Dublin 24, Dublin	Mar 2025	€470,000	465 m
27 Pinetree Crescent, Kilnamanagh, Dublin 24	Feb 2025	€366,000	472 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 September 2025
Decision due24 November 2025
Decision issued24 November 2025

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