Dominican Convent Campus
95 homes3 storeysCabra West, Dublin City Council
Approved Nov 2022; building started May 2025.
Also known as Cabra West Social Housing.
- 24 Aug 2022Received
- 18 Oct 2022Approved
- 28 Nov 2022Final approval
- 6 May 2025Building started
- Status
- Building started
- Decision
- Approved · 18 Oct 2022
- Size
- 95 homes · up to 3 storeys
- Uses
- residential
- Site
- 1.98 ha
Is it built?
- 2022Approved
- 2025Building started
- Not yetFirst homes signed off
The scheme
This development proposes the construction of 95 residential dwellings on the Dominican Convent Campus in Cabra West, Dublin 7. The project includes five three-storey blocks, two community rooms, and extensive public open space. The site is located south of St Catherine's Girls Senior School and north of Convent View Crescent.
it involves the construction of 95 residential dwellings
What the register says
Permission for a Social Housing development on a site of 2.05 Hectares on the Dominican Convent Campus, immediately south of St Catherine's Girls Senior School( D07 V045) and to the north of Convent View Crescent and bounded to the east by Ratoath Road, Cabra West, Dublin 7. The proposed development will consist of: • The construction of 95 no. residential dwellings, of which there are 14 no. 1 Bedroom Dwellings, 67 no. 2 Bedroom Dwellings, 13 no. 3 Bedroom Dwellings and 1 no. 4 Bedroom Dwelling, of which 35 no. are Ground Floor and 60 no. are on the First/Second Floor, all to be provided in 5 no. Three-Storey Blocks all with associated private amenity space, with a gross floor area of 7,759.4m² and the construction of 2 no. Community Rooms of 77.8m² and 75.6 m², respectively. • The provision of a total of 7,358m² of public open space which includes an 890m² public plaza and a 2,928m2 public park and children's play area. 60 no. surface car parking spaces and 52 no. visitor bicycle spaces within the public open space, • The provision of 2,656.7m² communal open space to the rear of the residential units with 193 no. residents bicycle spaces within 7 no. covered areas within the communal open space. • The construction of a new vehicular, cycle and pedestrian entrance to Ratoath Road, • The removal of the existing vehicular entrance and the demolition of the existing boundary wall and fence, and removal of entrance gates at Ratoath Road, • The construction of new boundary treatments to the northern boundary consisting of blockwork walls, fencing and hedge planting, to the eastern boundary consisting of brickwork walls, fencing and hedge planting, and to the southern boundary consisting of fencing and hedge planting to accompany the existing hedgerow and existing blockwork boundary. • All landscaping works, covered bin storage to the front of each dwelling, infrastructure works, external lighting, 1 no. ESB substation, and all enabling and site development works and services
Summary from the register record.
The site 1.98 ha
Boundary of Dominican Convent Campus from the planning application.
Planning applications inside the site 1 application in the last 10 years
Building work started inside the site 1 commencement notice
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