More apartments for SandyfordTreasury Holding's Mark II Partnership has submitted a planning application to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to build over 840 apartments on the former Allegro site at Carmanhall Road in Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18.
It is also proposing to build shops, restaurants, a convenience store, a retail showroom/warehouse , offices and a crèche in six blocks - all in a mixed development on a seven-acre site at Beacon South Quarter. Around 39 of the apartments will be live-work units and there are over 1,700 car-parking spaces at basement and lower ground floor level.
One of the blocks is a two-storey restaurant and community building, while the others - including an office building - rise from six to 12 storeys.
Also on Carmanhall Road, Joe O'Connell has been granted permission by the county council to build a residential development on the Tack packaging site. This will involve demolishing a warehouse, storage and offices and building a gym/private health club, shops and 182 apartments with private balconies in three blocks rising from nine to 12 storeys.
Nearby at the MJ Flood site on Blackthorn Road, Noel Smyth's Wexele Ltd's plan to build Ireland's second tallest building - a 24-storey tower - and over 250 apartments has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála, with one local referring to its height as "obscene".
Fourteen parties, mostly residents of nearby Stillorgan Heath, Lakelands and Upper Kilmacud Road residential areas, have appealed Wexele Ltd's plan to build two blocks ranging from seven to nine storeys around a central courtyard with a 24-storey apartment tower as part of one of the blocks.
An Taisce hits eco-tourism plan
An Taisce has opposed a €100 million "eco-tourism" development on a 275-acre site adjacent to Lough Key Forest Park in Boyle, Co Roscommon, because it is a nationally significant scenic landscape which has been scheduled as a Landscape Conservation Area under the Planning and Development Act 2000.
While tourism chiefs welcomed Roscommon County Council's decision to grant permission to the Canadian Newfound Consortium for a 100-bedroom hotel and 105 holiday cottages,
An Taisce, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Clean Ltd have lodged appeals.
