Glenveagh to lodge plans for 1,350 homes for Belcamp in north Dublin
Gordon Deegan
Home builder Glenveagh Homes is to lodge plans in the coming days for 1,350 residential units on lands adjoining Belcamp Hall off the Malahide Road in north Dublin.
The move by Glenveagh Homes to lodge the Large Scale Residential (LRD) scheme with Fingal Co Council follows the house-builder purchasing €130 million of property from Gannon Homes that includes the Belcamp site earlier this year.
The Belcamp LRD of 1,350 homes on a 119.5 acre site is to comprise 802 houses and 296 apartments across eight blocks, ranging in height from three to five storeys.
The scheme is to also comprise 252 walk-up apartments ranging in height from three to four storeys.
The site is within and adjoins Belcamp Hall and lies west of Malahide Road. It is north of the River Mayne in the townlands of Belcamp and Clonshaugh, Dublin 17.
Glenveagh is seeking a 10-year planning permission from Fingal County Council in its LRD application.
The overall scheme is made up of 685 two-bedroom units, 398 three-bedroom units, 212 one-bedroom units and 55 four-bedroom units.
The scheme also includes a childcare facility, 1,650sq metres of non-residential floor space, including retail uses and health and recreational services.
The site also includes the allocation of a site reserved for a school in the southwestern portion of the site.
The scheme will also include the provision of a mobility hub and public plaza and a new east-west distributor road, along with a bridge across the Mayne River.
The planning notice states that the lands “are internally bounded by the Protected Structure, Belcamp Hall and associated curtilage".
Gannon Homes had previously lodged Strategic Housing Development (SHD) plans in May 2022 to An Bord Pleanála for a 10-year permission for the construction of 2,527 residential units comprising 473 houses, 2,054 apartments and the firm withdrew the scheme in December of last year.
The new application comes against the background of Glenveagh remaining confident in delivering approximately 1,500 homebuilding units in FY 2025 and is on track to increase annual output to approximately 1,900 units by 2027.
The firm is active elsewhere in the north Dublin area with separate LRD plans currently before Fingal Co Council for 398 new residential units at Ballymastone, Donabate.
