Lands at and adjacent to, Former Dogs and Cats Home, Woodtown Cottages, Woodtown, Stocking Lane, Dublin 16.
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SD03A/0673 is a planning application for permission at Lands at and adjacent to, Former Dogs and Cats Home, Woodtown Cottages, Woodtown, Stocking Lane, Dublin 16., received by South Dublin County Council on 10 Sept 2003 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: Residential, creche, retail, office and public house uses and include the construction of 1) 1,144 no. dwellings consisting of: 392 no. houses (189 no. 2 storey 3 bedroom houses, 203no. 2 storey with attic accommodation three bedroom houses with study/computer room, 300no. 3 storey duplex units (156no. two bedroom units, 144no. three bedroom units), 452no. apartments (8no. one bedroom apartments, 444no. two bedroom apartments) in a range of 3 storey to 4 storey over basement buildings. 2) 1,936 no. communal car parking spaces including 223 no. basement spaces; 3) A two storey commercial / community centre of 2,325.67sq.m. containing the following uses: a food store / supermarket of 309.72sq.m.; 3 no. retail units of total area 238.30sq.m.; a creche of 500.98sq.m.; offices of 314.73sq.m.; circulation area of 149.85sq.m.; a two storey over basement public house with attic staff / office facilities of total area 812.09sq.m.; 4) 116 no. car parking spaces for the commercial and public house facilities. The proposal also includes: 5 no. vehicular accesses from a district distributor road currently under appeal with An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL.06S.202652; the demolition of 1 no. habitable dwelling; all associated site development works including foul, surface water and water supply connections and landscaping works. The proposed development is on lands comprising an area of approximately 23.59 ha. An Environmental Impact Statement accompanies this application. The council refused permission on 4 Nov 2003. The five-week observation window closed on 15 Oct 2003. The site is zoned G1 — open space with recreation under the South Dublin County Council development plan. The scheme is for 1144 units. Within 500 m there are 30 other decided applications in the last five years and 5 appeals.
Proposal
Residential, creche, retail, office and public house uses and include the construction of 1) 1,144 no. dwellings consisting of: 392 no. houses (189 no. 2 storey 3 bedroom houses, 203no. 2 storey with attic accommodation three bedroom houses with study/computer room, 300no. 3 storey duplex units (156no. two bedroom units, 144no. three bedroom units), 452no. apartments (8no. one bedroom apartments, 444no. two bedroom apartments) in a range of 3 storey to 4 storey over basement buildings. 2) 1,936 no. communal car parking spaces including 223 no. basement spaces; 3) A two storey commercial / community centre of 2,325.67sq.m. containing the following uses: a food store / supermarket of 309.72sq.m.; 3 no. retail units of total area 238.30sq.m.; a creche of 500.98sq.m.; offices of 314.73sq.m.; circulation area of 149.85sq.m.; a two storey over basement public house with attic staff / office facilities of total area 812.09sq.m.; 4) 116 no. car parking spaces for the commercial and public house facilities. The proposal also includes: 5 no. vehicular accesses from a district distributor road currently under appeal with An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL.06S.202652; the demolition of 1 no. habitable dwelling; all associated site development works including foul, surface water and water supply connections and landscaping works. The proposed development is on lands comprising an area of approximately 23.59 ha. An Environmental Impact Statement accompanies this application.
- Status
- Decision
- Decision
- Refuse permission on 4 Nov 2003
- Units
- 1144
- Floor area
- 11.15 ha
- Site (from polygon)
- 24.30 ha
- Location precision
- site (coords_polygon)
Timeline
- 10 Sept 2003New applicationObservation window closed 15 Oct 2003
- 4 Nov 2003DecisionAppeal window closed 2 Dec 2003
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Appeal
Not appealed.
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
OS: To preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities
Open space with active recreational amenities — pitches, courts, play areas.
LC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of Local Centres
A local centre: shops, services and apartments over them, serving the surrounding housing.
RU: To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture
Zoned to protect agriculture, rural enterprise and biodiversity. New houses are restricted to demonstrated local need.
RES-N: To provide for new residential communities in accordance with approved area plans
Zoned for new residential communities. This is where large housing schemes are expected to go, subject to the social and physical infrastructure arriving with them.
RES: To protect and/or improve residential amenity
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.
Designations within 250 m
No OPW flood extent nearby.
- NIAH-recorded building · 1
- Radon risk area · 5
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 122198). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/21406.
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