Planning application · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

51 homes at Gortanore, Brighton Road

Gortanore, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18, D18P9R9 (ACA)

D25A/0893/WEB · Dun Laoghaire RathdownGranted

51 homes · up to 4 storeys · 1.1808 ha · Granted · permission to Aug 2031 (estimate)

Planning application D25A/0893/WEB to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for 51 homes at Gortanore, Brighton Road, Foxrock. Granted by the council on 5 August 2026. The permission normally runs to August 2031 (an estimate: the grant plus five years).

Timeline

  1. Application lodged
  2. Further information requested
  3. Further information received
  4. Council granted
  5. Permission normally ends (estimate)

The end date is an estimate: the grant plus five years, the normal life of a permission. An extension or a commencement changes it.

Key facts

Reference
D25A/0893/WEB
Planning authority
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Received
22 Nov 2025
Decided
5 Aug 2026
Status
Granted
Application type
Residential
Use
Residential
Dwellings
51
Site area
1.1808 ha
Further information requested
22 Jan 2026
Further information received
18 May 2026

Homes and mix

Houses21
Apartments and duplexes30
1-bed24
2-bed6
3-bed9
4-bed8
5-bed4
Total homes51
  • Public open space
  • 60 car parking spaces
  • 48 cycle parking spaces
  • ESB substations

Read from the description, not stated on the register. Shown only where the parts add up to the total.

Proposed development

(i) The demolition of an existing two-storey dwelling and ancillary sheds; (ii) the construction of 30 no. apartments (including 24 no. one-bedroom units and 6 no. two-bedroom units) in two no. four-storey blocks fronting Brighton Road. Fourth storey will be set back. Each apartment will be provided with a terrace/ balcony; (iii) the construction of 21 no. houses (including 9 no. terraced two-storey three-bedroom units, 8 no. semi-detached two-storey four-bedroom units, and 4 no. detached three-storey five-bedroom units) all with skylights and rear gardens; (iv) provision of 60 no. car parking spaces (33 no. spaces to serve the apartments, 2 no. visitor spaces, and 25 no. spaces to serve the houses) and 4 no. motorbike parking spaces; (v) provision of 48 no. bicycle parking spaces located in secured bike stores at ground floor level of blocks A and B, and street level (36 no. long-stay spaces and 12 no. short-stay spaces); (vi) provision of public open space (2564 sq.m.) and communal open space (487 sq.m.); (vii) provision of a new vehicular/pedestrian access road, and 2 no. additional pedestrian entrances from Brighton Road; and (viii) provision of street lighting, internal roadways, footpaths, ESB substation, foul and SuDS surface drainage, landscaping, boundary treatments, and all ancillary infrastructural and engineering works necessary to facilitate the development.

Planning status

Permission was granted on 5 Aug 2026. The four-week appeal period has passed with no appeal recorded, so the permission is final. Works can start once a commencement notice is lodged; the permission normally runs to Aug 2031 (estimate).

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