This follows An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) confirming that it has received one third-party appeal against the decision by Dublin City Council to give the green light to Hines partner fund, CWTC Multi-Family ICAV, to construct a 1,131-unit scheme that includes a 13-storey apartment block for the site at Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3.
The 1,131 apartments are to comprise 268 studios, 282 one-bed apartments, 392 two-bed apartments, 132 three-bed units and 57 four-bed units.
The single appeal has been lodged by Ciaran Lynam and Anne Loughlin, of Drumcondra Park, Drumcondra.
The bulk of the joint submission by the two when the case was before Dublin City Council concerned lack of information provided by the applicants in relation to their obligations to provide social housing under Part V of the Planning and Development Act.
The two pointed to what they saw as omissions on the council planning file about the applicant’s Part V obligations and asked that “this information is requested by way of a ‘Further Information’ request, before the application is considered further”.
Dublin City Council does not make costings concerning Part V agreements submitted by applicants publicly available on its planning applications, but they are available at the applicant’s dedicated website for the Large-scale Residential Development (LRD) scheme.
Mr Lynam and Ms Loughlin state that the Part V units identified by the applicant within Blocks A2 and A3 are “located in the most congested area of the development, with limited open space, within the northern corner of the subject site”.
In the planning documentation lodged with the application, Hines put an indicative price tag of €64.57m on 113 apartments and studios it is planning to sell for social housing to Dublin City Council.
The indicative prices range from €717,843 for the two-bed, four-person units, €569,892 for one-bedroom units and €360,266 for studios.
The council planning report strongly endorsed the scheme. It said: “The site provides a significant opportunity to provide high-quality residential development at a sustainable density within walking distance of a key urban village in the city.”
A decision is due on the appeal in early 2026.
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