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Taoiseach Marks Progress in Housing Delivery at Visit to Clonburris, West Dublin

14.07.24| Updates

On 12th July 2024, the Taoiseach visited Clonburris in West Dublin to view ongoing development of Dublin’s newest neighbourhood, which is set to become home to 23,000 people. The area has huge scale and potential, close to green spaces and connected to the city centre in under 15 minutes by train.

  • New community will be home to 23,000 people, with plans to deliver thousands of homes
  • Parkleigh site underway, approval for over 1,300 new homes, over 50% social & affordable
  • Taoiseach notes good progress for Quarter 2, important milestone reached on National Planning Framework and commitment to scale up annual housing delivery to 50,000

The publication of the first revision to the National Planning Framework, setting out how the government must plan for the country’s future growth, underscores the need for carefully planned communities such as this Clonburris, as we scale up our housing delivery to 50,000 homes per year. Working with partners, both public and private, to provide homes for our citizens in communities which support a good quality of life, close to travel links and vital amenities, is at the core of Government’s housing plans.

The work under way at Clonburris exemplifies this type of development. Government has demonstrated its commitment to supporting the area through a €186 million investment in infrastructure. South Dublin County Council, Respond Approved Housing Body and Cairn Homes are working together to achieve results.

Supported by a €2.5m government investment, the first affordable purchase homes were advertised by South Dublin County Council late last year. Respond are in the process of allocating tenants to 48 new Cost Rental homes, with a further 122 to be delivered by year end.

We are now setting the plan for the next phase, scaling up our ambition and looking to deliver more communities like the one underway in Clonburris, which is the perfect example of how we can successfully accommodate growth in a new sustainable community and support the future success of Dublin as Ireland’s leading global city of scale.

The designation of further communities on the scale of Clonburris and Adamstown will be critical to achieving our increasing level of ambition as we work towards delivering an average 50,000 new homes per year.

Commenting on the site visit, Taoiseach Simon Harris said:

“I am delighted to have the opportunity to visit Clonburris today and see first-hand the ongoing development of this new sustainable community close to Dublin City Centre. Government working with our partners, building new communities at scale in the right locations, with the right services and amenities are critical to the successful development of our country for the future. The critical enabling infrastructure, including new roads and bridges, under construction here will allow for the development of up to 11,000 much needed new homes. I look forward to working with Government colleagues to continue the momentum we have built in the first three years of Housing for All and scaling up our ambition to 50,000 homes per year”.