Tallaght set for major apartment build as part of regeneration plans

By Laura Lyne

AN application – as part of the project known as Cookstown Regeneration – for a mixed residential and commercial development for the Cookstown Industrial Estate, has been submitted to South Dublin County Council, with a third application expected to be submitted for further housing in the coming weeks.

The application, the second one submitted as part of the Cookstown Regeneration project, is expected to see three sites within the Cookstown Industrial Estate developed into apartment blocks.

 

This will include hundreds of apartments, commercial units, community rooms, crèches and open spaces.

Zoning for Cookstown Industrial Estate changed in the 2016-2022 South County Dublin development plan, with the area now being zoned to facilitate enterprise and residential-led regeneration.

As reported in The Echo last week, the first application for the development of 184 apartments at a site located beside the Cookstown Luas Stop was resubmitted after its original application was deemed invalid for not adhering to Part V guidelines.

It will be known as Cookstown Crescent, and the decision on the application is expected by September 20.

The second application, which was submitted on July 29, is for a development which will be located on Fourth Avenue near the rear entrance to Tallaght Hospital.

Included within the proposal, to be known as Cookstown Cross, are 246 apartments within two separate buildings which will have a maximum height of seven storeys.

Three commercial units, two community rooms, two crèches, provision for a public park and a new road linking Cookstown Road to Belgard Square North are also included within the application.

An application for the third housing development has yet to be submitted, but is expected to be located on the Cookstown Road and will be the largest development of the three.

It will be located to the rear of the Belgard Luas Stop and adjacent to the Aldi store located on the Belgard Road.

According to the masterplan for the project, the development will include two buildings and will be known as Cookstown Castle.