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South Dublin County Council · SHD3ABP-309916-21/EP · Extension Of Duration Of Permission

Glen Abbey Complex

170 apartments7 storeysSquare Foot Property Services LimitedBelgard Road, South Dublin County Council

Approved Nov 2025; building not started (Q4 2025).

Also known as Cookstown Industrial Estate.

  1. 29 Sept 2025Received
  2. 24 Nov 2025Approved

Earlier approval here ran out with no sign of building: SHD3ABP-309916-21 (2021)

Status
Approved
Decision
Approved extension of duration of permission · 24 Nov 2025
Size
170 apartments · up to 7 storeys
Uses
residential, apartments, creche
Applicant
Square Foot Property Services Limited
Site
9,209 m²

Building progress councils’ figures, Q4 2025

170 homes permitted; building has not started (Q4 2025).

170
homes proposed
170
homes permitted
0
homes started on site
0
homes completed

completed · under construction · not started · 0 houses and 170 apartments permitted

Quarter by quarter
QuarterPermittedUnder constructionCompletedCompleted share
Q3 2025000
Q4 202517000

The scheme

Square Foot Property Services Limited proposes the demolition of existing industrial and office buildings at the Glen Abbey Complex on Belgard Road. The development consists of 170 build-to-rent apartments and a creche arranged in two blocks ranging from 4 to 7 storeys. The project includes basement parking, communal amenity spaces, and public open space.

it involves the construction of 170 apartment units

What the register says

Demolition of the existing industrial and commercial office buildings totalling c.4,628sqm; Construction of a Build-to-Rent Housing Development comprising 170 apartment units and crèche arranged in 2 blocks across 4-7 storeys over basement car park (total gross floor area c.13,880sq.m excluding basement); The residential development consists of: 9 x1 bedroom studio apartments; 94 x1 bedroom/2 person apartments; 2 x2 bedroom/3 person apartments; 34 x2 bedroom/4 person apartments; 24 x2 bedroom/4 person duplex apartments and 7 x3 bedroom/5 person apartments with north, south, east and west facing terraces/balconies throughout; Internal communal amenity spaces at ground and fourth floor levels comprising reception, gym, lounge, cinema/tv room, events rooms and ancillary areas; External communal open space including children's play areas and informal amenity spaces at ground floor level between Blocks A and B; Communal roof garden at fourth floor level - total external communal open space c.1,005sq.m; Public open space at ground floor level to the east and south of Block B totalling c.1095sq.m; 1 creche with associated outdoor play area at ground floor level; 73 car parking spaces comprising 64 basement spaces, 4 accessible parking spaces and 5 visitor spaces at surface level; 354 bicycle spaces comprising 264 resident spaces at basement level and 90 visitor spaces at ground floor level; Reconfiguration/removal of existing car parking to the north of the site and access road resulting in a total of 28 car spaces serving the adjoining site; All associated plant including heating centres, gas room, water storage room, break tank room, comms room and bin storage at basement level, ESB substation and switch room at ground level and circulation spaces and stair and lift cores throughout; Vehicular/pedestrian access to the east from Belgard Road. All existing vehicular entrances serving adjoining sites maintained. Fire/emergency and refuse vehicle access and pedestrian access to the south from Colbert's Fort; All associated site development and infrastructural works, services provision, foul and surface water drainage, extension to the foul network, access roads/footpaths, lighting, landscaping and boundary treatment works

Summary from the register record.

Planning timeline 5 steps

  • 21 Sept 2021
    Commission decision — Granted with conditions
  • 29 Sept 2025
    Application lodged — SHD
  • 11 Dec 2025
    Council decision — Grant
  • 11 Dec 2025
    Final approval
  • 11 May 2029
    Approval runs out (estimate)

The site 9,209 m²

Boundary of Glen Abbey Complex as the Dublin councils map it in the housing pipeline.

Planning applications inside the site 3 applications in the last 10 years

Appeals inside the site 1 with An Coimisiún Pleanála

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