840 apartments for Sandyford: Treasury Holding's Mark II Partnership has been granted permission by Dún Laoghaire County Council to build over 840 apartments on the former Allegro site at Carmanhall Road in Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18.
It is also building shops, restaurants, a convenience store, a retail showroom/warehouse, offices and a crèche in six blocks - all in a mixed-use 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.
Summerhill scheme rejected
An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a development of 94 apartments at Summerhill, Dublin 1 because the noise from the adjacent bus depot would constitute "a poor quality environment for future residents".
The developer, Tom Hendron, was looking to build three blocks of apartments rising to eight storeys and 495sq m (5,328sq ft) of retail commercial development on the ground and first floor fronting Summerhill.
The chief engineer for Dublin Bus, Shane Doyle, said that a garage and depot has operated from the site since 1947 and there is constant noise and movement on the site which continues throughout the night.
He said the noise would particularly affect residents of a proposed seven-storey block abutting the bus depot, because of a "significant numbers of windows and balconies with living and sleeping areas facing the depot".
Eugene O'Reilly, with an address at Langrishe Place, said the height of an office block - sited at the brow of the hill on Summerhill - will project on the city skyline and be out of character with other local buildings.
The developer argued that an assessment of the site confirms that the noise levels are typical of most city centre locations.
However, An Bord Pleanála refused permission because of its proximity to the boundaries with Langrishe Place and the bus depot. It said it would constitute a "poor quality environment" for future residents, and have a serious impact on the development potential of the bus depot.
