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How a Council dezoned an area of South County Dublin preventing land from being built

Fionnán Sheahan

It’s a road to nowhere. You go past the school grounds on the right and a group of houses on the left, through a round­about and then arrive at a hoarding with a padlocked gate. Inside are five acres of overgrown land in the heart of south Co Dublin.

In the midst of a housing crisis, this highly contentious, privately-owned and fully serviced site has been ‘dezoned’, so nothing can really be built on it.