Firm linked to Press Up group makes fresh bid to build 500 apartments in Blackrock

A development company linked to the co-owners of the Press Up Hospitality Group is making a fresh bid to secure planning permission for almost 500 apartments in the south Dublin suburb of Blackrock.

Oval Target, whose directors include Paddy McKillen Junior and Matthew Ryan of the Press Up pub and restaurant group, have applied to An Bord Pleanála to construct a €182 million apartment scheme of 493 units on a site previously owned by a religious order at Temple Hill, Blackrock, Co Dublin.

A previous attempt to secure planning permission for the project on the site of St Teresa’s House and St Teresa’s Lodge – two protected structures which were previously owned by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul – was quashed by order of the High Court two years ago.

An Bord Pleanála had granted planning permission for an identical project of 493 apartments in April 2022, although it ruled that one block containing 41 units should be omitted.

In October 2022, however, the…

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