268 dwellings planned for Lucan get the green light
By Aura McMenamin
PERMISSION has been granted for a significant development in Lucan as part of the Adamstown Strategic Development Zone.
Applicant Cairn Homes Properties Ltd submitted plans to construct 268 dwellings and 552 car parking spaces. The dwellings will consist of 184 two and three-storey houses and 166 apartment units.
Permission has been granted for 268 dwellings in Lucan
The application relates to lands in the Adamstown SDZ known as Tobermaclugg Village.
Of the 184 dwellings, 102 will be three-bedroom houses, 67 will be four-bedroom houses and 15 will have five bedrooms.
The 166 apartment units will be housed in seven blocks, which includes provisions for a creche and associated site works.
The submission contains plans for Block 1 to be a four-storey L-shaped terraced block, which will house eight duplex units comprising four two-bedroom duplex units and four three-bedroom duplex units.
It is proposed that Block 2 will be a three-storey terraced block which will contain 12 duplex apartment units, while Block 3 will consist of 14 duplex/apartment units.
The applicant is also seeking permission for Blocks 4, 5 and 6 to consist of four duplex units each comprising two two-bedroom duplex units and two three-bedroom duplex units.
The plans provide for the final block, Block 7, to be four-storeys high and to house 38 apartment units comprising eight one-bedroom units, 30 two-bedroom units, and a creche with access being provided from three access points from the approved east-west distributor road that bounds the site to the north.
The development will also include part of the north-south road that will replace Tandy’s Lane along the eastern boundary of the subject site, with plans for this road to facilitate vehicular traffic, bus lanes and stops, pedestrian footpaths and cycle paths to the proposed development.
Also included in the plans is the demolition of one dwelling and an associated outbuilding located to the southeastern corner of the subject site, and temporary permission is being sought for two 4.5metre-high triangular pylon marketing signs to be erected in the northeastern and southeastern corner of the site, addressing Shackleton Drive and Central Boulevard respectively, for three years.
