Save Donabate from rampant developer-led planning

Donabate Portrane Community Council needs your help to employ expert planners, ecologists and engineers to help the community fight this entirely unsuitable development at Corballis East, which will irreversibly destroy the peninsula.

An application has been made to An Bord Pleanála for 1,019 mainly 1 and 2 bed apartments and 346 houses at Corballis, behind the Strand and Smyth's Pub. (https://corballiseastshd.ie/) (https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/311059)

This application constitutes the second biggest Strategic Housing Development Application in the history of the State and will increase the population of Donabate from its current ca. 10,000 to over 14,000 people.

This development of mainly 1 and 2 bed apartments is custom designed to be sold to cuckoo funds to be rented out at high prices and will not deliver the much needed homes in our community.

This high-density development is entirely unsuited to a rural environment and is attempting to transplant an inner-city scheme to an area which is already suffering severely from a lack of infrastructure and proper facilities.

Similar SHD schemes have been successfully challenged elsewhere. We now need your help to challenge this because we cannot do it alone.  It is without doubt an attrocious and audacious attempt to crash-land a development aimed solely at maximising profit right on top of our peninsula, but with zero regard for its consequences.

The funds collected here will explicitly be used for engagement of expert consultants to support our case, as well as to cover the cost of business needed for the Donabate Portrane Community Council to continue supporting your community: Public liability and event insurance, zoom license, printing leaflets, ...

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