[fingal indo reports] REVISED plans to build more than 200 homes on the outskirts of Swords has been shot down by the planning appeals authority on the grounds that it would ‘give rise to a low standard residential environment’. Albany Homes has lost out on its bid to construct the new estate, close to Drynam Hall, Melrose Park and Kinsealy Downs, after An Bord Pleanála upheld a decision by Fingal County Council to reject the plan.
A previous application for 205 units had been granted permission by Fingal County Council but the revised application sought to build 214 units.
In its decision to refuse permission, the county council considered that the additional units had been added at the expense of the previously well designed groupings of houses.
