Dublin west may shortly get yet another shopping centre, following a decision to grant approval for a £25 million complex on the site of the original designated town centre site for Lucan/Clondalkin in Neilstown. It is about one and a half miles from Quarryvale, where the Liffey Valley regional shopping centre is due to open next October.

Glenveigh Properties, a company controlled by Harry Dobson, has secured permission for a large development which will include 235,000 sq ft of shopping, retail warehousing, an office complex, a 100-bedroom hotel, a multi-storey car park, multiplex cinema and 50 apartments. Mr Dobson is also behind the plan to provide a National Distribution Park with a rail link to Dublin Port on an adjacent 186-acre site. The former Dublin County Council originally designated the Neilstown site for a town centre, but later rezoned the Quarryvale land. The effect was to shift the town centre from Neilstown to Quarryvale.