South Dublin County Council grants permission for 455-home scheme at Tubber Lane, Adamstown, Co. Dublin

In context

It is one of 64 housing scheme applications South Dublin County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,568 nationally. Of the 3,037 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 12 March 2026. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

455 residential units (including a mixture of 2 and 3 storey semi-detached and terraced houses, and duplex units and apartments in 3 and 4 storey blocks), new internal roads and footpaths, site access, public open space, car parking, cycle stores, landscaping, bin stores, foul and surface water drainage, boundary walls and fences, ESB substations and all associated site development works. Private and semi-private open space to serve the proposed units will be provided in the form of balconies, terraces and gardens; including revisions to the permitted / under construction Celbridge Link Road (part of Loop Road 3), permitted under Reg. Ref SDZ17A/0009, associated with the provision of access to the development, parallel parking bays, and public lighting; 58 two bed, two storey, terraced houses (Type E1, E2, E3, J1 & J2); 6 three bed, two storey, semi-detached houses (Type 11); 190 three bed, two storey, terraced houses (Type A 1, A2, A3, B1, 82, C1, C2, C3, D1, D2, F1, F2, 11 & 12); 5 three bed, three storey, terraced houses (Type H); 6 four bed, two storey, terraced houses (Type K1, K2); 7 apartment Blocks (Blocks B, D, E, G, H, I & K) containing 111 apartments/duplexes including 32 one bed apartments, 22 two bed and 57 three bed duplex apartments over 3 storeys; 4 apartment Blocks (Blocks A, C, J & L) containing 37 apartments/duplexes including 8 no. one bed apartments, 29 three bed duplex apartments over 4 storeys; 1 apartment Block (Block F) containing 42 apartments including 2 one bed apartments and 40 two bed apartments over 4 storeys on a site located to the south of Tubber Lane, in the north-west of the Adamstown SDZ lands and to the west and south-west of the permitted/under construction Tubber Lane Phase 2 development (Reg. Ref: SDZ19A/0008, as amended under Reg. Ref: SDZ20A/0014).