Developer Deane Homes' plan to build over 700 residential units on lands that were formerly occupied by the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) at Stocking Lane in Dublin 16 has been challenged by another major residential developer.
Mountbrook Homes, which owns a substantial landholding beside the Deane Homes site, says that while it has no objection in principle to the development, it has "reservations about aspects of the proposed development".
In its appeal to An Bord Pleanála, it claimed that drawings of the proposed development show an incorrect boundary between its landholding and that of Deane Homes.
It concluded that Deane Homes "had taken a portion of land" belonging to Mountbrook Homes "or reserved a portion of it to act as a buffer/random strip" between the two landholdings.
Mountbrook also expressed concern that it would be prevented from linking into the roads and services of the subject development "contrary to the action area plan".
This appeal comes in the wake of Deane Homes being given the all-clear by South Dublin County Council for a 10-year plan to build the houses and apartments as well as a 3,328sq m (11,920sq ft) neighbourhood centre with a food store, three shops, a crèche, a pub and five offices on the site.
Another appellant, Simon Murray, with an address at Stocking Lane, said that access on to Stocking Lane has not been adequately dealt with and he had concerns in relation to traffic volume. He said that one of the conditions of permission requires a community facility "but there were no details available of this building nor its location adequately shown".
He contends the development is premature prior to provision of services and infrastructure.
Deane Homes lodged a first party appeal against a number of conditions of planning permission. The DSPCA sold the 40-acre site to Deane Homes for an undisclosed sum which helped finance its move to the 30-acre Pine Valley Golf Club at Mount Venus in Rathfarnham which it bought from the O'Carroll family over two years ago.
