GrantedHousing estateDecided 11 October 2021

Woodtown, Ballycullen, Dublin 16

Strategic Housing Development of 329 residential units, a creche, and a public park in Ballycullen.

SHD3ABP-310578-21 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 21 June 2021

Reference: SHD3ABP-310578-21
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: SHD3-Application to ABP
Received: 21 June 2021
Residential units: 329

Summary

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An application has been submitted to An Bord Pleanála for a large-scale development in Woodtown, Ballycullen. The scheme consists of 140 houses and 189 apartments/duplexes across four blocks up to 5 storeys high, alongside a two-storey creche, a public park, and associated infrastructure.

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Storeys: 5

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Official record

Development description

329 residential units comprising 140 x2 storey houses (terraced/semi-detached/detached) and 4 x2-5 storey apartment blocks comprising 57 x1-bed apartments and 132 x2-bed apartment/duplexes. The proposed development also includes a 2-storey creche, a new public park, residential pocket parks, communal open space, car parking (surface/undercroft), bicycle parking, bin stores, plant areas/utilities infrastructure. Vehicular access to be provided from the existing road connection to stocking avenue to the west of the site, and via stocking wood drive to the east of the site (with relocation of existing esb kiosk and associated works to the existing hammerhead providing additional visitor parking for the existing estate). Pedestrian routes to the boundaries abbots grove park, stocking wood copse and white pines park also proposed. All associated site development works (including site reprofiling), landscaping, boundary treatments and services provision.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

RES-NR1

“To provide for new residential communities in accordance with approved area plans”

National zoning type: New/proposed residential

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

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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
37 Stocking Wood Copse, Rathfarnham Dublin 16, Dublin	Sept 2025	€529,500	77 m
23 Stockingwood Copse, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16	Aug 2025	€630,000	112 m
15 Stocking Wood Copse, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16	Jun 2025	€615,000	135 m
5 Stocking Wood Rise, Stocking Ave, Rathfarnham Dublin 16	Jun 2026	€581,000	147 m
7 Stockingwood Copse, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16	Jun 2025	€730,000	157 m
Apt 4, Stocking Well Row, Rathfarnham Dublin 16	Sept 2025	€362,000	208 m
2 Stocking Wood Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16	Jun 2025	€636,000	223 m
4 Stocking Wood Dr, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16	Jan 2026	€670,000	228 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 received21 June 2021
Decision due16 August 2021
Decision issued11 October 2021

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