South Dublin County Council refuses permission for 655-home scheme at Boherboy, Saggart Road, Co. Dublin

In context

It is one of 64 housing scheme applications South Dublin County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,561 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 23 July 2025. 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.

Development to the immediate north of the site is the Carrigmore residential estate, to the west are agricultural lands and a single dwelling, to the east is the Corbally residential estate while to the south is the Boherboy Road; The proposed application represents the development of the entire Boherboy Neighbourhood as identified in the Fortunestown Local Area Plan (2012) consisting of 655 dwellings, comprised of 257 two, three & four bed, two & three storey detached, semi-detached & terraced houses, 152 one, two & three bed duplex units in 17 two to three, three to four & four storey blocks, and 246 one, two & three bed apartments in 9 buildings ranging in height from two, two to five, four to five & five storeys, and a two storey crèche (693sq.m); Access to the development will by via one vehicular access point from the Boherboy Road, along with proposed upgrade works to Boherboy Road to include the provision of a roadside footpath along the front of the site at the Boherboy Road, continuing eastwards to the junction with the N81 Blessington Road (for an overall distance of c.370m); The proposed development also provides for pedestrian and cyclist connectivity to the adjoining Carrigmore Park to the north-east, and vehicular, pedestrian and cyclist connections to adjoining developments at Corbally Heath to the east and Carrigmore Green to the north; The proposed development provides for (i) all associated site development works above and below ground, including surface water attenuation & an underground foul sewerage pumping station at the northern end of the site, (ii) public open spaces (c. 3Ha), including alongside the Corbally Stream, which will accommodate the provision of pedestrian / cyclist links to Carrigmore Park to the north-east, (iii) communal open spaces (c. 6,392sq.m), (iv) hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatments, (v) undercroft, basement & surface car parking (914 car parking spaces, including EV parking), (vi) bicycle parking (797 bicycle parking spaces), (vii) bin & bicycle storage, (viii) public lighting, and (ix), plant (M&E), utility services & 5 ESB sub-stations, all on an overall application site area of 18.3ha; In accordance with the Fortunestown Local Area Plan (2012) an area of c. 1.4Ha within the site is reserved as a future school site.