Dublin 4 is the subject of two major planning applications this week - one in Ringsend and the other in Donnybrook. Edel Morgan reports.

The Leinster branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union is looking for a seven-year planning permission to build a new clubhouse and facilities and 111 apartments on a 2.99-hectare site off the Donnybrook Road.

This will involve demolishing the Bective Rangers football and lawn tennis clubhouse and viewing stand and replacing them with a new three-storey clubhouse with a gym, offices, function rooms, kitchens, bars, staff and storage, television and media press box.

It is also looking to build a new main viewing stand and two entrance stiles from Donnybrook Road, as well as additional concrete terracing, four tennis courts, practice courts, a new scrummage area, a rugby pitch, and a 452-metre long river walkway linking Anglesea Bridge with Herbert Park.

The proposal is also to build 111 apartments in eight blocks.

Fabrizio Developments is looking to build 783 apartments, and offices in 16 blocks on a 4.9-hectare site on the South Bank Road in Ringsend which is bounded by Sean Moore Park and the former Irish Glass Bottle Company.

The scheme will also have a mix of offices, and one retail pavilion in a total of 16 blocks which rise to eight storeys. A public open space, market square, seafront promenade and 995 car-parking spaces and 1,047 bicycle spaces are also part of the plan.