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Keeping an eye on regional planning can be a challenge given the pace of change in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area. It’s important that the general public both understand how these changes will affect them as well as understanding how they can issue submissions (objections) or feedback. For this reason we’ll endeavor to publish a list of some of the open planning applications where your input would be of value. In the coming weeks we’ll also publish a information page on useful regional planning information.
- The council are looking for our local resident feedback on plans for 80 new apartments on a triangular plot of land wedged between the M50 and the busy Leopardstown Road. The 80 apartments have a reduced number of only 64 car parking spaces to encourage new residents to use public transport.
https://dlrcoco.citizenspace.com/planning/planning-proposal-of-residential-development-at-wi/
It’s free to make a comment using the link and deadline is 8th April 2025. - Developer Midsal Homes Limited has applied once again to expand its emergency accommodation facility at the Karuna Site on the Sandyford Road near Sandyford Village by building two new single storey extensions with 16 new rooms and plans for 10 staff and 24 guest parking spaces. Interestingly An Bord Pleanala had recently approved a separate plan for 54 apartments and 13 houses on the same site. Deadline for making an observation on the proposal is 23rd Apr 2025.
https://planning.agileapplications.ie/dunlaoghaire/application-details/101857 - Our County Council are planning to build 129 residential units on land at the edge of our nearby important local biodiversity hotspot and proposed Natural Heritage Area (pNHA) Fitzsimon’s Woods. Planning documents are available to view online and a public consultation process is opening, deadline for your comments is 29th April and it’s free to comment.
https://dlrcoco.citizenspace.com/housing/housing-proposed-housing-development-at-blackglen/ - Proposed Flood Relief Scheme
DLRCoCo and the OPW have notified us of a project to provide improvements to the Carrickmines & Shanganagh streams, a tributary of which runs through Belarmine and Kilgobbin and skirts the outside of the Sandyford Hall estate.
See more: https://sandyfordhall.com/flood-relief-scheme-to-affect-sandyford-hall/ - Hillcrest Road scheme
Oisin O’Connor has an update from Dec 2024 on the state of the Hillcrest road widening scheme which appears to be still in the public consultation and planning phase:
https://oisinoconnor.com/hillcrest-road-upgrade-2024/ - Blackglen Road Improvement Scheme
The Blackglen Road Improvement Scheme has been marked as “substantially completed” following the completion of the final section of road and cycle-lanes, and the removal of the temporary ramps.
https://www.dlrcoco.ie/capital-programme/blackglen-road-improvement-scheme
Close by the County Council are also planning 37 new residential units at Lambs Cross and 80 on a site overlooking the M50 off Leopardstown Road.