Housing green spaces being targeted by developers

The Irish Times

Green spaces on up to 20 housing estates in south Co Dublin are being targeted by property developers because they have never been formally handed over to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. In one case, believed to be the first of its kind, Dewdrop Properties Ltd is seeking planning permission to develop 22 apartments and 30 houses on part of a green space in the Leopardstown Oaks estate on Brewery Road. The four-acre site at Leopardstown Oaks is zoned "open space" and was so conditioned by a planning permission granted in 1962. The council's parks department has been maintaining it since 1979 and it was included in the parks by-laws in 1996.

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