{"id":524955,"date":"2026-06-30T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524955\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:18:11","slug":"court-directs-13-week-plan-for-removal-of-29-modular-homes-built-without-permission-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524955\/","title":{"rendered":"Court directs 13-week plan for removal of 29 modular homes built without permission in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The High Court<\/a> has ordered that 29 modular homes built without planning permission near Brittas in Co Dublin<\/a> be removed within a 13-week period and directed the owners and developer of the site to lodge a \u20ac150,000 bond pending the remediation.<\/p>\n

Judge Richard Humphreys earlier this month held that the houses at the site must be removed, and the \u201chighly sensitive site\u201d remediated. He had directed a detailed remediation plan be provided.<\/p>\n

In a separate judgment, the judge set out the details of the remediation plan, including a 13-week timeline for the removal of the housing units. <\/p>\n

Branach Developments Ltd, the developer, with a registered address at Thomastown, Caragh, Co Kildare<\/a>, and the site owners, Mullnassa Limited and Threshford Limited with registered addresses at Rock Road, Blackrock, Dublin, had previously sought to remove one housing unit per week over a 29-week period. <\/p>\n

The judge also ruled that the developer must lodge a \u20ac150,000 bond with South Dublin County Council<\/a>, pending the remediation of the site. <\/p>\n

The judge said the financial hardship arising from bond provision \u2013 which had been resisted by the defendants \u2013 is \u201con them\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is a modest degree of financial inconvenience for the respondents, they could have avoided serious financial implications by stopping work when they got the warning letter from the council, when they got warning letters … when they got the enforcement order, when proceedings were issued, when an injunction was sought,\u201d the judge said. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut no \u2013 they just stood on the accelerator through those flashing red lights, in the hope of creating a fait accompli before they were brought to a halt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The judge noted that there was no evidence before the court relating to the potential cost of the remediation works. However, he said it was common knowledge that \u20ac150,000 \u201cwould only cover a fraction of the works that are going to be required\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the bond will provide \u201csome assurance that the remediation will actually be carried out and will put to the test the [owner and developer\u2019s] stated willingness to carry out the remediation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The court will address next month the defendant\u2019s application for a stay on orders, in light of a potential application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, the judge noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The High Court has ordered that 29 modular homes built without planning permission near Brittas in Co Dublin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,73,61,60,3770,43,13357],"class_list":["post-524955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-high-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-news","tag-south-dublin-county-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524955","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=524955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}