Oakway Test Centre, Lower Ballymount Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, D12 KDN8
- 19 Nov 2025Received
- 21 Jan 2026Grant permission
- 24 Feb 2026Final grant
- 23 Feb 2031Permission expires
- Status
- Granted
- Decision
- Grant permission · 21 Jan 2026
- Council
- South Dublin County Council
- Type
- Permission
- Site
- 450 m²
What’s proposed
Alterations to the building to facilitate the conversion of the existing Test Centre into a ''Drive - Through'' Test Centre in line with incoming RSA/CVRT regulatory policy. The alterations are mostly internal, including the re-positioning of partitions and the vehicular test equipment to facilitate the proposed 'drive - through' circulation route. Externally, there are alterations to the front facade including the removal of the glazed screen of the existing disused showroom and the insertion in that area of two new vehicular openings that will be similar to the one existing vehicular opening
SD25A/0283 is a planning application to South Dublin County Council for alterations to the building to facilitate the conversion of the existing Test Centre, received on 19 Nov 2025; permission was granted on 21 Jan 2026.
Planning details
- Reference
- SD25A/0283
- Local authority
- South Dublin County Council
- Status
- Granted · register status “Final Grant”
- Received
- 19 Nov 2025
- Observations close
- 2 Jan 2026 (closed 255 days ago)
- Decision due
- 22 Jan 2026 · decided 21 Jan 2026
- Decision
- Grant permission on 21 Jan 2026
- Proposed development
- Alterations to the building to facilitate the conversion of the existing Test Centre into a ''Drive - Through'' Test Centre in line with incoming RSA/CVRT regulatory policy. The alterations are mostly internal, including the re-positioning of partitions and the vehicular test equipment to facilitate the proposed 'drive - through' circulation route. Externally, there are alterations to the front facade including the removal of the glazed screen of the existing disused showroom and the insertion in that area of two new vehicular openings that will be similar to the one existing vehicular openingAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 450 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 53.31618, -6.34277
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
Not appealed.
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
REGEN: To facilitate enterprise and/or residential led regeneration
A high-density mixed-use employment corridor tied to a rail or metro line. Expect the tallest buildings in the area here.
Designations within 250 m
OPW flood extent nearby — flag only (licence); floodinfo.ie.
- EPA-licensed facility · 3
- Radon risk area · 4
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 102440). 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/69316.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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