Councillors vote to rezone site in Finglas with potential for thousands of homes

A 106-acre site in Finglas is to be rezoned with the potential to create thousands of new homes.

This is after Dublin City Council voted last night in favour of rezoning the land to “mixed use” which could see 2,200 homes built on brownfield lands between McKee Avenue and Jamestown Road.

The proposal was backed by 43 councillors, with 17 objecting.

The land is owned by a group of four local businesses – KSG Catering, Sigma Wireless, CEL and Haribo, who have operated in the area since the 1980s and 1990s and who have now teamed up to advance plans for their lands.

The plans will see currently underused, low-density industrial units replaced by a new environmentally-sustainable community, featuring a mix of housing units and state-of-the-art business premises that the applicants claim will increase employment on the lands ’10-fold to more than 2,000 by 2030.’

John O’Hara, city planning officer at Dublin City Council, said the plan for the area was a development comprising 50 per cent residential, 30 per cent commercial and 10 per cent open space, with a provision for community use in the scheme, including a school.