Located within the Poolbeg West Strategic Development Zone (SDZ), the Glass Bottle development is a new urban quarter, which will include a balanced mix of residential, offices, retail, hotels, student accommodation, cultural and community facilities, leisure, restaurants, bars and open-air public amenity space. It will be built on the site of the former glass bottle site by Dublin Bay, near the communities of Irishtown, Ringsend and Sandymount.

Glass Bottle will provide 3,800 new homes, providing housing for up to 9,500 people.

The development will include 10% social housing throughout the development. A further 15% of the residential units will be allocated to affordable housing.

Glass Bottle is part of the Poolbeg West Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) which was approved by An Bord Pleanála in 2019. A proposal for planning permission for Phase 1 of the Development was submitted in June 2021. Additional planning applications for the rest of the development are to be submitted over the next coming years.

A Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) is a government initiative to enable sites of strategic national importance to be fast tracked through the planning process.

Once an SDZ has been approved, as long as planning proposals within that zone are consistent with the original SDZ planning scheme, the proposals will be accepted.

This phase of the development consists of:

• Approximately 570 apartment units in three individual buildings fronting onto Sean Moore Road including social and affordable units
• A new crèche
• 400sq m of retail space

Construction began in 2021. We expect the redevelopment will take over ten years. These dates will be subject to delivery of infrastructure upgrades outside the site. Subject to permission, construction on the first residential element could begin in early 2022, before welcoming the first residents to Glass Bottle in 2024.

Yes. The site will allow access through Glass Bottle at all times, creating easier and improved routes to the enhanced coastline and strand. All of the facilities to be built, such as the Community Hub, will be accessible to residents of the surrounding areas. Consideration is also being given to ‘meanwhile’ uses which would open up parts of the site to the existing communities prior to completion of the development.

The development will create in excess of 90,000 sqm of commercial, civic and enterprise space. The commercial and enterprise space will provide jobs for more than 10,000 people, many of them from Glass Bottle and nearby communities. There will also be opportunities for employment of local people in the construction phase.

The construction will take place in phases. When construction is due to begin, there will be a Considerate Contractor Policy in place so that all steps are taken to ensure the minimum of disruption to neighbours.

Glass Bottle has the potential to support a sustainable residential and working community with minimal commuting. As part of this, the scheme will create new dedicated public transport infrastructure to promote sustainable transport. The community will be served by new extended bus routes and an extended Luas service. Pedestrian and cycling routes towards the coastline and the city centre are also to be integrated. When complete the proposed improvements to the Sean Moore Road/Boulevard junction will also accommodate any requirements of the traffic and transport needs of the scheme.

This phase of the development consists of:

• One building of 356 apartment units
• Retail space on the ground floor
• Residential amenity facilities
• Parking spaces for cars and bicycles

Meanwhile uses are facilities that sit on the site while it is being prepared for residential development. The meanwhile uses on the Glass Bottle site will be open to the local community and will promote the temporary use of vacant land for artistic, cultural and community uses.