Lands Identified For Over 1,000 New Homes In Ballymastone

Around 200 acres of land has been identified to deliver over 1,000 new homes in Ballymastone, Donabate.

Fingal County Council will begin to develop the properties next year after the completion of the Donabate Distributor Road.

The homes will be affordable public and private housing which will be made available to buy or rent.

The Council is to initially engage in Market Sounding with the private sector on current housing market dynamics and gather industry views on the delivery of residential housing development on Council lands across the county.

The Council is inviting interested parties from the industry, with relevant experience in the delivery of large scale residential development projects, to participate in the Market Sounding by logging into the etenders website and completing the questionnaire.


The public will have an opportunity to make submissions and lodge observations in respect of any development on the site through the established procedures in the statutory planning process.

"We are strongly focused on increasing housing supply in Fingal and realise that we need to work with the private sector to ensure that we produce the right mix of housing on our lands," said AnnMarie Farrelly, Director of Planning and Strategic Infrastructure at Fingal County Council.

The Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Anthony Lavin, added: "As a Council we are working on many fronts to meet the demand for housing and this market sounding exercise is an opportunity to take on board the views of the private sector as we look to develop lands in the County."

There are currently 127 private sites in Fingal with planning permission to deliver 17,733 houses while Fingal County Council has been set a target of delivering 1,637 social housing units in 2018 under the Rebuilding Ireland programme.These will be delivered through a number of mechanisms including build, acquisitions, Part V, voids, leasing, HAP and delivery via Approved Housing Bodies. By the end of July, 930 social housing units had been delivered for 2018.

(CM/MH)