Two development firms have drawn up plans for two Large Scale Residential Development schemes totalling over 1,000 units in neighbouring counties to Dublin.
In one scheme, the Irish arm of the Comer Group is to lodge plans in the coming days for 716 dwellings on lands around Dunboyne in Co Meath.
In a planning notice published on behalf of Comer Group subsidiary AZRA Property Company Ltd, the firm is seeking a 10 year planning permission for an LRD made up of 517 apartments in eight blocks ranging from four to seven storeys.
The directors of AZRA Property Company are listed as Barry Comer and Luke Comer Jnr and the two are sons of the one of the founders of the Comer Group, Luke Comer Snr.
The LRD scheme is to be constructed on a 42 acre site in the town lands of Castle Farm, Ruskin, and Clonee and also includes 155 two storey houses.
The houses are made up of eight two bedroom homes, 69 three bedroom homes, 74 four bedroom homes and four five bedroom homes.
The scheme's public open space component will be 28,030 sq metres and also comes with 887 car-parking spaces
In the second major LRD scheme, Glenageary based firm, Keldrum Limited has lodged plans for a 352 unit residential scheme on a 41.5 acre site at Tinakilly, Rathnew, Co Wicklow.
The scheme is made up of 220 residential houses and 132 apartment/ duplex/ maisonette units and the subject site is on the northern periphery of Wicklow Town, with Wicklow town main street approximately 2km to the south.
Planning consultants, Brock McClure state that the development site is also located adjacent to Rathnew, a small village, approximately 350 metres to the west.
A planning report by Brock McClure said that the scheme will directly complement the permission for 365 new units on an adjacent site.
Brock McClure states that it is clear from the pattern of previously submitted and granted applications of the sites surrounding the subject lands "that this area has been earmarked for residential development for a number of years".
It said that the subject proposal "presents an opportunity to realise the vision for the Tinakilly lands as a new residential neighbourhood in the Wicklow/ Rathnew area and consolidate development on the lands".
Brock McClure also said that "the proposal follows the zoning submitted and approved by Wicklow County Council as part of the Area Action Plan for these lands, providing appropriate density on the residential zoned lands".
The proposed development will connect to the Tinakilly Park residential development and Rathnew Village via a new section of the Rathnew Inner Relief Road.
Reporting by Gordon Deegan
