Housing plans refused permission due to location of Health Care Centre
By Laura Lyne
FOLLOWING an appeal to An Bord Pleanala, a housing development for a site located to the rear of St John's Road and with frontage onto Fonthill Road in Clondalkin has been refused permission.
The development, which was for ten dwellings, had previously been refused permission by South Dublin County Council and was appealed by the applicant, Paul Crowley.
In the application, the ten dwellings included four two-bedroom semi-detached houses, four three-bedroom end terrace houses and two two-bed mid terrace houses.
A new vehicular access road from St John’s Road was also proposed as part of the application, passing over lands that are owned by South Dublin County Council.
The application had been refused permission by the council due to the location of the development to an approved Primary Health Care Centre and due to the proposed development setting an “undesirable precedent” for other similar developments.
In its reasons for refusal, ABP said that the proposed development, in context of the permitted adjoining Primary Health Care Centre would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area.
It said the development would be a “poor standard of residential amenity for the intended occupants of proposed dwellings numbers 5-10 and would result in a substandard form of amenity”.
The final decision to refuse permission was given on April 29.
