Green light for Sandyford apartments

The appeals board also reduced the number of units after Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council recommended a refusal for the 137 unit scheme but stated that it would grant planning permission to a reduced scale scheme that successfully addressed the council’s concerns relating to residential density, separation distances, car parking standards and scale and massing.

Local objections claimed that “the height, scale, massing and density of development are out of character with this sensitive transitional location, which is currently primarily characterised by two storey residential development”. An Taisce stated that the scale of the development at up to six storeys “is too great for this outer suburban area at the foothills of the Dublin Mountains. The development will be dominant and visually obtrusive”.

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