An Bord Pleanála have refused plans for over 1,000 build-to-rent apartments in Tallaght
The board decided that the €300 million apartment block scheme would conflict with the local area plan as none of the flats would be available to buy.
The 1,104 unit development was planned to be erected in Cookstown Industrial Estate in Tallaght.
Existing buildings were set to be knocked and replaced with the build-to-rent block.
The low rise buildings fronting Cookstown Road are all a maximum of three storeys high, but were planned to be replaced with the massive complex.
The planned build-to-rent blocks were made up of 132 studio apartments, 475 1-bed apartments, 208 2-bed apartments, 244 2-bed duplex units and 45 3-bed apartments.
The four new blocks were set to range from four to eleven storeys high.
Four commercial units were planned for the ground floor level, with a café, restaurant or bar to be built in Block B.
Office spaces, a crèche with outside play area, a public plaza and three new roads were all also going to be installed at the Dublin 24 site.
Foul and surface water drainage, attenuation tanks, lightning landscaping, footpaths, street furniture were going to accompany the buildings.
The applicant had also wished to include 351 parking spaces.
Planning permission for 217 apartment unit and similar commercial units had already been refused in January 2009.
The latest proposed development on the site was refused because it would conflict with the provisions of the Tallaght Town Centre Plan for 2020-26.
The board also said that granting permission would set an undesirable precedent for similar developments in the area.
The plans were also refused on the basis that the sewage network and water supply were insufficient to support the build.
They said: “the proposed development would, therefore, be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area.
“The proposed development would be premature having regard to the existing deficiencies in the water supply and wastewater sewerage network in the area and the period within which this constraint may reasonably be expected to cease.”
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