Build-to-rent apartments at Agnelli Motors site require ‘further consideration’ says ABP

PLANS for the development of 241 build-to-rent apartments at the Agnelli Motors site on the Greenhills Road in Tallaght “require further consideration/amendment”, An Bord Pleanála (ABP) has ruled.

As reported in The Echo last August, Green Optical Limited submitted the application for a pre-planning consultation for the proposed development to ABP.

The two directors of Green Optical Limited are Monaco-based Siobhan Quinlan, a property investor and wife of financier Derek Quinlan; and solicitor Michael Quinlan, with an address in Castleknock.

The company was incorporated in July 2020, and its registered address is listed as

8 Parnell Square East.

On November 25, ABP decided that the result of Green Optical Limited’s pre-planning consultation was that the plans required “further consideration/amendment”.

Pre-planning consultations are the first stage of the fast-track application process for Strategic Housing Developments (SHDs), and the consultations are held in advance of a formal planning application being lodged.

The area surrounding the proposed Agnelli development is the subject of numerous large-scale developments.

These developments include the site of the former Gallaher’s cigarette factory on the Greenhills Road, where plans for a €110m residential development consisting of 502 apartments have been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

The former Cable and Wireless site on the corner of Airton Road and Belgard Road is set to house 328 apartments, across two apartment blocks, after developer Power Scaffolding Supplies Ltd was granted planning permission last year.

According to South Dublin County Council’s Tallaght Local Area Plan 2020-2026, the overall area of Broomhill and Greenhills is to be “predominantly business with more mixed-use residential” uses.