DZ16A/0587

Permission for residential scheme comprising the lands of 6 no. existing houses: Silver Slope (Bray Road, Dublin D18 Y6H7), El Dorado (Bray Road, Dublin D18 T9C6), Greenhills (Bray Road, Dublin D18 R9C0), Capard (Bray Road, Dublin D18 A2Y6), The Galliard (Bray Road, Dublin D18 H9E2) and Teely Lodge (Bray Road, Dublin D18 E0K1) and, for the purposes of providing drainage connections, part of the rear gardens of Dún Baoi (No. 4 Beech Park, Bray Road, Dublin D18 TW75), Corrente (No. 5 Beech Park, Bray Road, Dublin D18 W7K7), Lynwood (No. 6 Beech Park, Bray Road, Dublin D18 A2R7), Foinavan (No. 7 Beech Park, Bray Road, Dublin D18 FA55) and Woodbrook (No. 8 Beech Park, Bray Road, Dublin D18 A5N5). The site includes some 0.78 ha, forming part of Development Area 5 (Druid's Glen) of the Cherrywood Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme (April 2014). The site is principally bounded by a fuel filling station (Service Station, D18 AK58) to the north, the N11 to the east, Dún Baoi (No. 4 Beech Park, Bray Road, Dublin D18 TW75) to the south and partly by the Cabinteely Stream and open space to the west. (The property identified as Woodhaven (Bray Road, Dublin D18 A6R9) located between Silver Slope and El Dorado, does not form part of this development). The development will consist of; the demolition of 6 no. residential units and ancillary structures and the construction of 34 no. residential units (comprising: 16 no. 3 storey, semi-detached, 4-bedroom houses (House Type A), 4 no. 2 storey, semi-detached, 4-bedroom houses (House Type A1), 6 no. 2 storey, semi-detached, 3-bedroom houses (House Types C & C2) and 8 no 2 storey, terraced, 3-bedroom houses (House Type C1)). The development will also consist of the construction of part of the Cherrywood SDZ Planning Scheme's Druid's Glen Road (also known as P to Q) from its connection with the western boundary of the subject site for a distance of approx. 160m to its connection to the N11 and all associated development and infrastructural works, including the part-provision of the Druid's Glen Road bridge, with two options proposed: (Option 1) up to 27.6m of the bridge comprising 1 no. complete abutment and 1 no. partial bridge pier, to the western boundary of the subject site (the 3-span Druid's Glen Road bridge will have an overall span of 46m approx., with 2 no. abutments and 2 no. piers, with the balance to be built as part of a subsequent permission yet to be secured on the lands to the west of the subject site) and (Option 2) up to 23.2m of the bridge comprising 1 no. partial abutment and 1 no. partial bridge pier, to the western boundary of the subject site (the 3-span Druid's Glen Road bridge will have an overall span of 41.8m, with 2 no. abutments and 2 no. piers, with the balance to be built as part of a subsequent permission yet to be secured on lands to the west of the subject site). Works providing for the connection of the Druid's Glen (P to Q) Road to the N11 are also included in the development proposal. The development will also include the construction of waste storage facilities, associated car parking spaces and bicycle parking spaces, respectively, vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access and egress, provision of electric vehicle charging points, provision of boundary treatments including associated lighting, alterations to existing site services, changes in levels including associated retaining features, associated hard and soft landscaping including a playground and all other associated site excavation and infrastructural works above and below ground. Works to the N11 (external to the application site) to facilitate the construction of the junction with the Druid's Glen Road will be undertaken by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in its capacity as Roads' Authority for the area. It is proposed not to operate the road infrastructure, the subject of this application, until such time as the Council has permitted and constructed that element of the works on the N11 to facilitate development of this complementary junction.