131 homes planned for site of 4.29 hectares in Kilternan

Watch this Space:Developer Bryan Cullen's Goldenball Ltd is to apply to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for a residential development at Kilternan, Co Dublin.

Situated on a 4.29-hectare site on the western side of Enniskerry Road in Kilternan village beside the Golden Ball pub, the development is to comprise of 131 dwellings.

The proposal is for a mix of three, four and five-bed terraced, semi-detached and detached houses, and 12 duplex units in a three-storey building, as well as 230 surface car-parking spaces.

Locals appeal scheme planned for synagogue site in Rathmines

Rathmines residents have opposed Dublin City Council's decision to grant planning permission to the Trustees of the Jewish Home of Ireland for a residential development on the site of a nursing home and synagogue in Rathmines, Dublin 6.

The proposal for the development at Effra Road and to the rear of 2-5 Le Bas Terrace on Leinster Road West involves the partial demolition of the synagogue and a Jewish nursing home at 6 Le Bas Terrace.

It would comprise 19 residential units in three blocks, including five three-storey townhouses, four mews houses and 10 apartments in a three-storey block.

Seven appeals have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála from residents groups, and individuals living on Effra Road and Leinster Road.

An appeal from Mr and Mrs K Brady says the proposed development "completely ignores the design, building lines, eaves, heights and architectural quality of the existing residential fabric in the dwellings in the neighbourhood. It is shoehorned into the site with no proper provision for landscaping, car parking or public and private open space."

The appeal says the building which houses the nursing home, Denmark Hill (a villa), is a "landmark in the landscape of Rathmines" built in 1850 by the first chairman of the Rathmines Town Commission, Frederick Stokes, and was later owned by the well-known antiques dealer Louis Wine until 1950.