Residents in Foxrock lodge appeal against planning permission for housing development designed by Dermot Bannon’s firm

Architect Dermot Bannon. Photo: Mark Condren

Seán McCárthaigh

Residents of an upmarket south Dublin suburb are embroiled in a planning row with one of the country’s largest homebuilders over a proposed housing development designed by the firm of well-known architect Dermot Bannon.

A group of locals living in Foxrock have lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleánala against the recent decision of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to grant planning permission for the construction of an exclusive housing development at The Birches, Torquay Road, Dublin 18.