Site beside Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and Motor showroom are put forward

A motor showroom site tucked in between the N7 and Monastery Road, a site that’s “the missing piece” between Adamstown and Grange Castle and lands beside the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre are among the sites proposed for rezoning in Clondalkin, Lucan and Adamstown.

Connectivity to major transport routes like the M7, M50, and train lines as well as the proposed BusConnects corridor from Liffey Valley into the city centre, cited in many of the proposals for the council’s public consultation on potential sites for residential rezoning.

South Dublin County Council’s yearly housing targets have been increased from approximately 2,500 new homes per annum to 3,217 new dwellings per annum up to 2034, under the new Housing Growth Requirements Guidelines for Planning Authorities.

Cairn Homes, already responsible for developing thousands of homes within the Adamstown Strategic Development Zone, have proposed rezoning a major site known as Adamstown South “to deliver some 2,500 new homes and essential community infrastructure within this single-ownership, infrastructure-ready landholding”,

The site, which lies between rail lines from Heuston and the Grand Canal, is the “missing piece” between Adamstown centre and developments in Grange Castle.

Lands beside the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre

Cairn have also submitted a proposal for a 30ha site to the east of Newcastle, one of several in the Rathcoole/Newcastle area currently zoned as rural land that have been proposed for residential rezoning by different developers.

Another significant site proposed, which could deliver “in the region of 1,500 residential units”, is located within the MRC – Major Retail Centre (the only in the country) of Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.

Hines Real Estate Ireland, current owners of the retail centre, have proposed the site, situated between the original shopping centre and the Tesco, due to its proximity to existing residential communities, the M50, and the new BusConnects Plaza.

There are multiple sites proposed along the N7/Naas Road, including the Leinster Motor Group showroom, described as a “highly accessible urban location” on a triangular site between the N7, Monastery Road and the Red Cow Interchange, as well as 3 hectares of “vacant, underutilised and brownfield” land formerly used as garages just a few yards further south along the motorway.

Another site proposed is located directly beside the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel and was the subject of a failed planning bid by hotelier Colm Neville for a 242-room hotel in 2020.

All 46 suggestions for lands to be rezoned as residential can be viewed on South Dublin County Council’s consultation portal at consult.sdublincoco.ie.

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