AN BORD PLEANÁLA has ruled against a large residential development on Enniskerry Road, Glenamuck, Dublin 18.
A consortium of developers called the MCM Partnership lost its first party appeal to demolish two large houses, Greenmount and Dún Oir, on an 11-acre site near the village of Kilternan in the foothills of the Dublin mountains and build 250 residential units.
It lodged the appeal after Dún Laoghaire Rathdown refused permission for the development, saying Glenamuck is no longer capable of taking any more development-generated traffic and the development would be premature pending determination of a road layout for the area.
The developer was looking to build 150 apartments in five blocks rising from four to six storeys and 100 three, four and five-bedroom houses in seven four-storey blocks.
The developer argued in its appeal to An Bord Pleanála that the future layout and design of the Enniskerry and Glenamuck Roads is far more advanced than intimated by the council and that a layout is imminent.
However the planning board agreed with the local authority and ruled that, given deficiencies in the local road network, the development would be premature.
It said the density, height and lack of open space would lead to a “poor quality” of residential environment for future residents and that inadequate sightlines at entrances would constitute a traffic hazard.
