€140m scheme for Deerhunter pub site

The site of the former Deerhunter pub at Glenageary roundabout in Co Dublin is to be turned into a €140 million "urban village".

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has granted planning permission to Frank Gilmer of Gilmer Properties for the residential and commercial scheme designed by McCauley Daye O'Connell, a group of architects who formally worked for HKR Architects.

This is the first high profile development for Gilmer Properties which is better known for its infill apartment schemes.

The development, which will have buildings along Sallynoggin Road, will have 85 dual aspect apartments with views over Dún Laoghaire and Dublin Bay, and a south-west facing courtyard. A neighbourhood centre will comprise a mix of retail, community buildings and local employment uses. There will also be a village square, plaza and streets of neighbourhood shops and restaurants. Fronting the roundabout, the design is light glass and steel, and the plaza will be centred around an artwork and water feature with formal groves of sculptured trees.

Along Sallynoggin Road, the buildings are designed to create a contemporary streetscape leading to a village square with restaurants, a café, a performing arts school, gym, leisure, local medical centre and own-door offices.

The agents for the scheme, Sherry Fitzgerald New Homes and DTZ Sherry Fitzgerald, say the development "will integrate with the existing roads and streets and create a dynamic and complex series of new spaces with a village square". However, it is believed that the possibility of exacerbated traffic at the already congested Glenageary roundabout may lead to the scheme being appealed to An Bord Pleanála.