Dublin City Council refuses permission for 52-home scheme at Kestrel House, 157 Walkinstown Road, Dublin

In context

It is one of 139 housing scheme applications Dublin City Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,638 nationally. Of the 3,067 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 78% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 2 October 2023. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Dublin City Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

The development will consist of : (i) demolition of the existing two storey over basement building (licensed public house and ancillary off-licence); (ii) construction of a part-four, part-six, part-seven and part-eight-storey mixed-use development consisting of the following : (a) 52 no. apartments (23 no. one-bed apartments and 29 no. two-bed apartments) from first to seventh floor level, each served by private amenity space in the form of a balcony/terrace and having shared access to 354.5sq.m of external communal amenity space provided via roof terraces at the fourth and sixth floor levels; (b) provision of 3 no. retail units (total of 149.7sq.m) and a public house (total of 368.2sq.m) at ground floor level; (c) provision of refuse storage, a plant room ESB substation/switch room, 96 no. secure bicycle parking spaces, 1 no. accessible bicycle parking spaces and 2 no. cargo bicycle at ground floor level; (d) erection of 6 no. antennas and 6 no. link dishes mounted on ballast support poles and associated diplexers, remote radio units and lighting finials on a steel mounting support platform together with 2no. outdoor cabinets and stepovers and associated equipment at the roof top; (iii) all ancillary works, inclusive of landscaping, green roof, rooflights, solar panels, visitor bicycle parking spaces (40 no.) and all associated site development works necessary to facilitate the development.