Esker Lawn Cemetery, Newlands Road, Lucan, Dublin 22
- 18 Jun 2024Received
- 15 Jul 2024Grant permission
- 8 Aug 2024Appealed
- 18 Dec 2025Appeal: Granted with conditions
- Status
- Appeal decided — granted
- Decision
- Grant permission · 15 Jul 2024
- Council
- South Dublin County Council
- Type
- Permission
- Site
- 5,558 m²
- Appeal
- ACP 320513 · Granted with conditions
What’s proposed
The construction of a new 485 m2 crematorium within the grounds of Esker Lawn Cemetery consisting of a congregation space, 1 no. electric cremator and associated plant and services spaces, and the provision of visitor toilets, and ESB substation; provision of new car parking area and minor adjustments to existing parking resulting in the net addition of 2 parking spaces; amendments to existing site landscaping involving removal and reduction of existing hard surfaces and roadway surfaces and all associated works; the construction of new landscaping works including a contemplation pond, water feature, planted landscape berms and swale drains at the building perimeter and at the adjacent area designated for grave spaces under SD10A/0331 as part of a combined suds drainage and biodiverse planting strategy; temporary access for construction traffic to be provided from the eastern boundary, and the existing boundary treatment reinstated post construction
SD23A/0292 is a planning application to South Dublin County Council for the construction of a new 485 m2 crematorium within the grounds of Esker Lawn Cemetery, received on 18 Jun 2024; permission was granted on 15 Jul 2024.
Planning details
- Reference
- SD23A/0292
- Local authority
- South Dublin County Council
- Status
- Appeal decided — granted · register status “Appeal decided”
- Received
- 18 Jun 2024
- Observations close
- 23 Jul 2024 (closed 783 days ago)
- Decision due
- 15 Jul 2024 · decided 15 Jul 2024
- Decision
- Grant permission on 15 Jul 2024
- Proposed development
- The construction of a new 485 m2 crematorium within the grounds of Esker Lawn Cemetery consisting of a congregation space, 1 no. electric cremator and associated plant and services spaces, and the provision of visitor toilets, and ESB substation; provision of new car parking area and minor adjustments to existing parking resulting in the net addition of 2 parking spaces; amendments to existing site landscaping involving removal and reduction of existing hard surfaces and roadway surfaces and all associated works; the construction of new landscaping works including a contemplation pond, water feature, planted landscape berms and swale drains at the building perimeter and at the adjacent area designated for grave spaces under SD10A/0331 as part of a combined suds drainage and biodiverse planting strategy; temporary access for construction traffic to be provided from the eastern boundary, and the existing boundary treatment reinstated post constructionAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 5,558 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register
Full planning report for 53.35169, -6.44282
Zoning, appeals, sold prices, flood and heritage constraints — everything for this area in one PDF.
No account, no payment. Not a statutory planning search.
Appeal
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.
Designations within 250 m
OPW flood extent nearby — flag only (licence); floodinfo.ie.
- NIAH-recorded building · 4
- Radon risk area · 3
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 118043). 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/65088.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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