Fresh plans for an apartment scheme by Lioncor on the grounds of Terenure College in Dublin have addressed all the grounds for refusal to a previous scheme, according to planning documentation lodged by the developer.
Its subsidiary, 1 Celbridge West Land Ltd, has plans for 284 unit large scale residential scheme in four blocks on lands at the college in Dublin 6W.
The previous plan envisaged 264 units and 21 houses on former playing pitches at Terenure College.
In the new planning application, McGill Planning said that the scheme was fully compliant with the policies and provisions for the area including land use zoning, density and design standards for residential schemes.
The planning consultants said that the proposed development would “in no way compromise or restrict the current operations of the existing school”.
They also noted that the development would not prevent future building on the remainder of the school lands zoned for institutional or community use.
They said that the density had been reduced from 146 units per hectare to 107 units by reducing the quantum of residential development and height.
The 164-page planning report said that the proposal had “fully addressed previous flood risk concerns”.
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McGill Planning also said that the proposal now included one single vehicular access to the development from Fortfield Road and has removed plans for previously proposed secondary access to address any traffic safety concerns.
McGill Planning also said that “the proposed development will also bring significant benefits to the area, in particular the provision of new public open space, a better mix of housing types and unit sizes to the area and a new community/cultural/arts space”.
The 11½ acre proposed development site is located in the northwest corner of the grounds of Terenure College Senior school and the main part of the site is an open field that was formerly used as playing pitches associated with the now-closed junior school.
McGill Planning said that there were significant design changes in the current scheme compared to the build-to-rent scheme that was refused planning.
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