Manor Park Homebuilders has got the green light for a €85 million residential development at Hansfield Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15.
Manor Park, controlled by businessman Joe Moran, has been granted planning permission for 240 houses and apartments. It will include 162 houses ranging in size from two-bed townhouses to four-bed detached houses.
The remaining 78 units will include apartments and duplexes. The project will occupy 18 acres of the proposed 200 acre SDZ where as many as 2,000 new homes are expected.
Menolly Homes was recently granted planning permission to build a residential scheme at Hansfield. This development consists of 219 units, including semi-detached houses, townhouses, duplex units and apartments in 14 blocks on a 13.5 acre site.
The development will be accessed from an existing roundabout at the junction of Ongar Road and Hansfield Road.
These will be the first units to be built on the 197.5 acre site in one of three areas designated as SDZs in 2001 to "fast-track" the building of new homes.
Adamstown, which is near Lucan, was the first SDZ to get approval by An Bord Pleanála and Castlethorn Construction has sold over 500 units there since it was launched in January.
In 2004, Menolly was refused permission by Fingal County Council for a development of over 900 units on the grounds that it would be premature pending a decision by An Bord Pleanála on the draft planning scheme.
