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South Dublin County Council · SD24A/0071 · Permission

Main Street & New School Road, Newcastle, Co. Dublin

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Council received 21 Feb 2025We first saw it 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (568 days after receipt — sources refresh weekly)
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SD24A/0071 is a planning application for permission at Main Street & New School Road, Newcastle, Co. Dublin, received by South Dublin County Council on 21 Feb 2025 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: Mixed use development consisting of 44 no. residential units and 6 no. commercial units in 3 no. blocks as follows, (A) Block V1 accommodates 16 no. units consisting of 8 no. two bed ground floor apartments & 8 no. three bed duplex units at first and second floor level, (B) Block V2 accommodates 1 no. coffee shop and 1 no. local scale shop at ground floor level and 12 no. apartments at first, second & third floor levels consisting of 6 no. one bed apartments and 6 no. two bedroom apartments, (C) Block V3 accommodates 4 no. local scale shops at ground floor level and 16 no. apartments at first, second and third floor levels consisting of 6 no. one bed apartments, 6 no. two bedroom apartments and 4 no. three bed duplex apartments, (D) Undercroft car parking, bin storage, bike storage, landscaping & planting, outfall drainage and all associated site development works. The council granted permission on 19 Mar 2025. The five-week observation window closed on 28 Mar 2025. An Coimisiún Pleanála decided appeal 322275 on 12 Mar 2026 (grant conditions). The site is zoned M2 — major town centre under the South Dublin County Council development plan. Within 500 m there are 55 other decided applications in the last five years and 16 appeals.

Appeal window closes 16 Apr 2025 closed 515 days ago
4 weeks from the council's decision (19 Mar 2025) · s.37 Planning and Development Act 2000 · €220 to An Coimisiún Pleanála (€110 observer)

Proposal

Mixed use development consisting of 44 no. residential units and 6 no. commercial units in 3 no. blocks as follows, (A) Block V1 accommodates 16 no. units consisting of 8 no. two bed ground floor apartments & 8 no. three bed duplex units at first and second floor level, (B) Block V2 accommodates 1 no. coffee shop and 1 no. local scale shop at ground floor level and 12 no. apartments at first, second & third floor levels consisting of 6 no. one bed apartments and 6 no. two bedroom apartments, (C) Block V3 accommodates 4 no. local scale shops at ground floor level and 16 no. apartments at first, second and third floor levels consisting of 6 no. one bed apartments, 6 no. two bedroom apartments and 4 no. three bed duplex apartments, (D) Undercroft car parking, bin storage, bike storage, landscaping & planting, outfall drainage and all associated site development works.

Status
Appeal decided
Decision
Grant permission on 19 Mar 2025
Floor area
4,814 m²
Site (from polygon)
4,798 m²
Location precision
site (coords_polygon)

Timeline

  • 28 May 2024
    Further information requested
  • 21 Feb 2025
    Further information received
  • 21 Feb 2025
    New application
    Observation window closed 28 Mar 2025
  • 19 Mar 2025
    Decision
    Appeal window closed 16 Apr 2025
  • 14 Apr 2025
    Appeal lodged

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Appeal

ACP 322275 · Planning Appeal · decided · Granted with conditions 12 Mar 2026
received by the Commission 14 Apr 2025 · inspector's report · board order

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    Zoning at the site

    M2 — Major town centre

    VC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of Village Centres

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

    R1 — New residential

    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.

    R2 — Existing residential

    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 · 6
      water pump; Saint Finian's Catholic Church; Newcastle National School
    • Radon risk area · 2
      About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels; About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
    • Recorded monument · 4
      Well; Castle - tower house; Font (present location)

    Provenance

    Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 116765). 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/65836.

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