Planning permission has been approved to build a residential development in Montrose, Dublin.

The planning grant will enable Cairn Homes to develop 611 apartments, three town houses, a childcare facility, two cafés, a change of use for the existing Mount Errol building for residents’ facilities and a gym. The development will also feature 2.5 acres of landscaped publicly open space.

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The Board in its direction stated that the Cairn development "is considered to be of strategic and national importance having regard to the definition of strategic housing development….and its potential to contribute to the achievement of the Government's policy to increase delivery of housing from its current under supply set out in Rebuilding Ireland".