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Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council · D25A/0521/WEB

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dundrum Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14, D14W895

Approved in Aug 2025.

  1. 2 Jul 2025Received
  2. 20 Aug 2025Approved
  3. 24 Sept 2025Final approval
Status
Approved
Decision
Approved · 20 Aug 2025
Council
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Type
Permission for Retention
Site
1,619 m²

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What’s proposed

In plain English

Retention of saunas and wellness facilities at Dundrum Road

The applicant is seeking permission to keep four wood burning saunas, cold plunges, showers, and a relaxation area. The proposal also includes keeping bicycle parking, signage, and a mural.

  • Asks to keep work already built (retention)
  • Includes twenty bicycle spaces and one cargo bike space
  • Features a mural and advertising signage
  • Involves reconfiguration of the undercroft
Written by AI from the council’s description

An AI model rewrote the council’s description below in everyday words on 9 Oct 2026. It was told to use only that text, and every number it wrote was checked against it. It says nothing about whether the application will be approved. The council’s wording and planning file are the record.

The council’s description

Balance Saunas Ltd. trading as The Barrel Sauna intend to apply for retention pe…

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Planning details

Reference
D25A/0521/WEB
Local authority
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Status
Granted · register status “Final Grant”
Received
2 Jul 2025
Observations close
6 Aug 2025 (closed 438 days ago)
Decision due
26 Aug 2025 · decided 20 Aug 2025
Decision
Grant permission on 20 Aug 2025
Site area
1,619 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure

What could you build here?Opens pre-filled with “works already built” — how the same work went for the houses around here.

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Zoning

M2 — Major town centre

The main town centre — retail, offices, civic uses, apartments.

R2 — Existing residential

An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.

R2.6 — Existing residential

An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.

Protections nearby 250 m

  • Record of Protected Structures · 2
    Woodlawn House; Saint Nahi's Church
  • Recorded monument · 6
    Ecclesiastical enclosure; Church

Where this comes from

National planning feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 15:18.

Source: National Planning Application Database · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 15:18
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Summary

D25A/0521/WEB is a planning application to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for balance Saunas Ltd. trading as The Barrel Sauna intend to apply for retention pe, received on 2 Jul 2025; permission was granted on 20 Aug 2025.