Go-ahead given for huge development of apartments
An artist’s impression of the look of the former Ballyfermot De La Salle school site with 900 residential units

Go-ahead given for huge development of apartments

PLANS for a massive apartment development of over 900 units at the former De La Salle National School in Ballyfermot, have been granted permission, albeit at a slightly reduced scale.

Dwyer Nolan Developments Ltd were seeking permission for 927 residential units in blocks up to a height of 13 storeys.

An Bord Pleanála granted permission this week for the strategic housing development (SHD), located on 8.3 hectares.

The number of residential units permitted was reduced in the permission to 839, and building heights restricted to no more than eight storeys.

Among the conditions in the permission are that the Blocks F and G shall be reduced in height to eight storeys, by the omission of the eighth and ninth floors.

Block H shall be reduced in height to eight storeys for its western element, and the eastern element shall be reduced in height to ten storeys, by the omission of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth floors.

Block E containing 12 units shall be omitted from the scheme and landscaped as public open space.

In making its decision the Board regarded the policies and objectives of the Dublin City Development plan 2016-22, and multiple government programmes and housing plans, including Project Ireland 2040 which supports “compact growth.”

The Board considered the development, subject to conditions, would “constitute an acceptable quantum and density in an accessible urban area and “would not seriously injure residential or visual amenities.”

The proposed development is considered to be of “strategic and national importance” given its “potential to substantively contribute to the achievement of the government’s national policy to increase housing supply”.

They note recent permissions granted for similar developments in Park West, Davitt Road, Concorde Industrial Estate and Carriglea Industrial Estate, and that the proposed development, is “to an extent, continuing on the pattern of development granted in those permissions.”

The school and surrounding GAA playing pitches were sold in 2018 by the De La Salle brothers to Dwyer Nolan Developments Ltd.

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