Cookstown Cross

Steelworks Property Developments Limited, intend to apply to An Bord Pleanála for permission for a strategic housing development at Units 66 & 67 Fourth Avenue, Cookstown Industrial Estate, Tallaght, Dublin 24. The development will consist of:

(i) Demolition of the existing industrial buildings (2,518sq.m);

(ii) construction of: (a) 252 no. ‘build-to-rent’ apartments (comprising 50 no. studios, 96 no. one-bed apartments; 100 no. two-bed apartments and 6 no. three-bed apartments) in a two to nine storey development. Each apartment has associated private open space in the form of a ground floor terrace or a balcony and has access to 613sqm of internal communal amenity space (including a concierge and management facilities, communal gym, flexible meeting rooms, library/co-working space, lounge, cinema/multimedia room and external covered game area); 1792sqm of external communal amenity space at first and second floor levels; and a 65sqm external covered communal amenity area at first floor level. The development is served by an under-croft carpark accessible from the south-western corner of the site providing a total of 73 no. parking spaces (including 58 no. standard spaces, 10 no. go-car spaces and 5 no. mobility impaired user parking spaces) and 500 no. bicycle spaces at ground floor level (372 no. resident spaces and 128 no. visitor spaces); and (b) 2 no. commercial units (comprising of a 95sqm unit accommodating a café/restaurant and a 145sqm unit accommodating Class 1, 2 and 8 uses as per the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001-2019, as amended) and a 275sqm crèche, with associated 86sqm play area, at ground floor level;

(iii) road, junction and streetscape upgrade works along Fourth Avenue and Cookstown Road, including the installation a signalized junction at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Cookstown Road;

(iv) Construction of a temporary access road along the southern site boundary; and

(v) associated site and infrastructural works are also proposed which include: foul and surface water drainage; attenuation tanks; lighting; landscaping; boundary treatment; plant areas; ESB substations; and all associated site development works.