A development that includes more than 200 so-called 'co-living' homes for Dun Laoghaire has been approved by An Bord Pleanala.
The proposal for the development, which was previously described as 'Dickensian' will see the co-living apartments built by property group Bartra Capital on Eblana Avenue.
Each en-suite bedroom will contain a pull-up bed and a kitchenette and more than 40 people will share each kitchen and living area.
Bartra CEO Mike Flannery said: “The Bord recognise that there is a place for co-living within the Irish housing market and we look forward to delivering this new and innovative form of accommodation.
"Ireland needs new models of housing to cater for changing demographics, living habits and employment patterns. Co-living is one such response to these changes.
"Batra Capital will proceed with the development and implement all conditions outlined by An Bord Pleanala."
But Dublin MEP Ciaran Cuffe previously slammed the development and said it "provides an insight into the prospect of a dystopian housing market driven by profit and greed".
He said: "I suspect that even the communal living apartments of Soviet Russia had more generous spatial standards than are apparent in this planning application.
“[Housing] Minister [Eoghan] Murphy’s ‘Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments’ guidelines are a classic example of light-touch regulation and they need to change. It allows developers to propose poor quality developments.
"The regulations state: ‘the nature and extent of the resident services and amenities may be agreed by the project developer and the planning authority having regard to the scale, intended location and market for the proposed development’.
“We are in a housing crisis. We need to build homes of a decent standard."
A proposed development by Bartra for similar homes was refused for a site in Tallaght last month by ABP.
The 222 unit proposal for Cookstown was refused by the planning board as it would "fail to provide an acceptable living environment for future residents of the development".
And Dublin City Council previously refused a 105 unit co-living development for Rathmines by the same developer.
