Mixed-use scheme in Baldoyle: Helsingor Ltd, a company owned by Sean Mulryan, is applying for planning permission to build a mixed-use town centre in Baldoyle as phase three of the Baldoyle Action Plan.
Mulryan has applied for planning permission for a development which includes civic squares, commercial and retail uses, 482 residential units and a civic centre.
The urban centre buildings, ranging from two to eight storeys, will be located adjacent to a train station on the Dublin/Belfast line. The overall development comprises 582 residential units, 10,078sq m (108,479sq ft) of office space, 636sq m (6,846sq ft) medical centre, supermarket, shops, department store, restaurants, café, pub, crèche and leisure centre. Around 4,000 homes are planned for the former Baldoyle racecourse and an adjoining 100-acre site in Portmarnock. Sean Mulryan sold a 50 per cent stake in the Baldoyle and Portmarnock lands to Séamus Ross of Menolly Homes for €95 million in 2004.
351-unit D15 scheme appealed
An Bord Pleanála will decide the fate of Castlethorn Construction's proposed development of 351 dwellings on a 14-acre site in Pelletstown, Ashtown, Dublin 15. The development would form most of the third phase of the development on a site bounded by the Royal Canal Towpath and Crescent Park.
In his appeal to the planning board, a resident of Ashington Dale off the Navan Road says the density of over 59 units per hectare is excessive under the residential density guidelines and the recreational area and crèche provision is inadequate given the size of the estate.
Development in D8 appealed
A mixed-use development bounded by Clarence Mangan Road and Warrenmount Convent in Dublin 8 has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála by residents of Sweeney's Terrace and Clarence Mangan Road. Osprey Property, a subsidiary of Eircom, is looking to build 211 apartments, including 16 live-work units, 10 shops/commercial units and offices.
The proposal is also to convert 10 Mill Street, a protected structure, and the former Mission Hall, which are both in ruins, into a microbrewery, a restaurant/café and bar.
However, residents of Sweeney's Terrace say the four-storey duplexes proposed to the rear of them will cause overshadowing and overlooking. Concern has also been expressed that there is only nine metres between the building perimeter line and houses on Clarence Mangan Road.
Traffic and the fear that the restaurant will eventually be turned into a superpub were other issues.
