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.
- 29 Sept 2025Received
- 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).
completed · under construction · not started · 0 houses and 170 apartments permitted
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Permitted | Under construction | Completed | Completed share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Q4 2025 | 170 | 0 | 0 |
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 2021Commission decision — Granted with conditions
- 29 Sept 2025Application lodged — SHD
- 11 Dec 2025Council decision — Grant
- 11 Dec 2025Final approval
- 11 May 2029Approval 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
Other big developments nearby within 2 km
- SDCC Lands @28 Locations · 128 m away
- Cookstown Estate Road Development · 217 homes · 6 storeys · 209 m away
- Junction of Airton Road and Belgard Road · 284 m away
- Airton Road Extension · 301 m away
- Belgard Road and Belgard Square North · 438 homes · 317 m away
- Airton Road and Belgard Road Site · 328 homes · 9 storeys · 335 m away
- Units 66 & 67 Fourth Avenue · 252 homes · 9 storeys · 382 m away
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