Dublin City Council grants permission for 59-home scheme at Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin

In context

It is one of 140 housing scheme applications Dublin City Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 nationally. Of the 3,032 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% 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 10 March 2025. 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 site is bounded to the west by Swords Road (R132) to the south by Collins Avenue (R103), to the north by Dublin City Council lands and to the east by existing residential development at The Thatch Road, Dublin 9. The proposed development consists of the construction of 59 no. older persons apartments, 46 no. 1 bed & 13 no. 2 bed, in a three storey block, to include community room, reception, office, meeting room, laundry, mobility storage, bulky storage, plant room, bin store, ESB substation & meter room located at ground floor level. This application also includes all associated site development and infrastructural works, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, surface car parking (17 no. spaces) and bicycle parking (40 no. residential, 15 no. visitor spaces). Vehicular access to the site will be via the existing carpark entrance off Collins Avenue East.