10/11/26
The Land Development Agency (LDA) and Dublin City Council have welcomed the decision by the city’s Councillors to approve planning permission for 123 new homes and significant new amenities at the Donore Project in Dublin 8.
The homes are part of Phase 2 of the Donore Project development where the LDA and Dublin City Council are already developing 542 homes at the former St. Teresa’s Gardens housing complex. The plans also include a municipal multi-sport playing pitch and a new public park.
The homes will be developed on two separate sites and include 103 cost rental and 20 social homes.
This development is supported by funding from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund (HIIF), administered by the Housing Activation Office of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
In Donore, the funding will enable the delivery of key pieces of infrastructure, including roadways, pedestrian and cycle infrastructure, emergency access routes and drainage infrastructure. It will also include landscape planting, which will facilitate sustainable urban drainage and improve biodiversity in this built-up urban area.
One of the two proposed residential buildings consists of an apartment block of 16-storeys in height which will provide one studio apartment, 71 one-bedroom plus 31 two-bedroom apartments.
The second building comprises a 3-storey block with ground floor and duplex apartments above, including 2 one-bedroom, 8 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom apartments, all with own-door access.
The multi-sport playing pitch is intended to be used for multiple different sports including soccer, rugby and GAA games. It will be delivered alongside a variety of landscaped playgrounds, exercise and open spaces. The new public park will be located to the north of existing houses on the South Circular Road, near the former Bailey Gibson site.
Construction on the 542 new homes in Phase 1 is continuing, with the first apartments to be delivered early next year. The two phases combined will bring the total number of new homes to 665.
Construction is scheduled to start on Phase 2 of Donore Project in 2027 with the playing pitch to be completed by the end of that year and the homes completed by the end of 2028.
The overall project will include a creche, community spaces, a café, retail units and a mobility hub as well as a new home for Donore Boxing Club.
It will open new routes between Donore Avenue, South Circular Road and Cork Street to support the creation of a revitalised and integrated neighbourhood.
In addition to the Donore Project, the LDA and DCC are partnering on the development of over 1,200 homes at Cherry Orchard Point in Dublin 10, 146 at An tSrúill in Coolock in Dublin 5 and 383 at Bluebell Waterways in Dublin 12.
