20, Mount Carmel Park, Firhouse, Dublin 24

What’s proposed

Two storey end terraced family flat

Reference: SD04B/0229
Local authority: South Dublin County Council
Status: Refused · register status “Decision”
Received: 18 Aug 2004
Observations close: 22 Sept 2004 (closed 8049 days ago)
Decision due: 14 Sept 2004 · decided 10 Sept 2004
Decision: Refuse permission on 10 Sept 2004
Proposed development: Two storey end terraced family flat
As published by the register.
Site area: 297 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
Applicant: Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register

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Permitted, not started · 100 homes granted 10 Aug 2026, expires 09 Aug 2031 — 2 Firhouse Road and Former Morton's The Firhouse Inn (0.1 km)
Permitted, not started · 11 homes granted 04 May 2018, expires 02 Jul 2031 — Vista Montana (0.6 km)
Permitted, not started · 55 homes granted 11 Aug 2025, expires 11 Aug 2030 — Speaker Connolly Tavern (0.9 km)
Public land off Mount Carmel Park, Firhouse Tallaght, Dublin 24 (0.1 km)
Residential land off Mount Carmel Park, Firhouse, Dublin 24 (0.2 km)

National planning feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51.

Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51

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