{"id":113196,"date":"2025-10-31T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113196\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:45:13","slug":"permission-sought-for-510-apartments-at-former-rte-site-in-donnybrook-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113196\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission sought for 510 apartments at former RT\u00c9 site in Donnybrook \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cairn Homes<\/a> is to lodge plans in the coming days for a scaled back 510-unit apartment scheme for its Montrose site beside RT\u00c9\u2019s<\/a> campus.<\/p>\n

The planning application by Cairn Homes Montrose Ltd reduces by 98 the number of apartments from the permitted 608-unit scheme that secured the green light in July 2023 from An Bord Plean\u00e1la.<\/p>\n

The new scheme, to be lodged with Dublin City Council, is made up of 326 two-bedroom apartments, 125 one-bedroom unitss, 51 three-bed apartments and eight studios. <\/p>\n

They would be built across eight apartment blocks. Three of the blocks would rise to 10 storeys in height.<\/p>\n

The 10-year planning permission granted by An Bord Plean\u00e1la in July 2023 gave the go-ahead for 608 apartments in nine blocks ranging in height from two to 10 storeys and comprising 272 build-to-sell units and 336 build-to-rent.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Cairn Homes to begin construction of apartments on former RT\u00c9 lands in DonnybrookOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

In the split decision, the appeals board refused permission for a 16-storey tower in the scheme, which would have included a 192-bedroom hotel and 80 apartments.<\/p>\n

In the revised application, Cairn Montrose has given notice that it is to seek the omission of two planning conditions relating to the build-to-rent covenants from all units. <\/p>\n

One condition attached by ABP, which Cairn is seeking to have deleted, ordered that a legal agreement be put in place by Cairn confirming that the build-to-rent units should remain owned and operated by an institutional entity for a period of not less than 15 years. And that no individual build-to-rent residential units should be sold separately for that period.<\/p>\n

In January, Cairn commenced works on the first phase of its permitted scheme, some eight years after Cairn agreed a \u20ac107.5 million deal with RT\u00c9 to purchase just under nine acres of land at its Donnybrook<\/a> headquarters.<\/p>\n

Cairn\u2019s plans for the former RT\u00c9 site have met with strong local opposition. Cairn Homes Montrose told An Bord Plean\u00e1la last year \u201cthere is a high risk of litigation against a future grant of permission, having regard to the history of litigation against a previous permission\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cairn Homes is to lodge plans in the coming days for a scaled back 510-unit apartment scheme for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21443,8786,42,3662,43,6085,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-113196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cairn-homes","9":"tag-donnybrook","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-housing-crisis","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rte","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}