Parkleigh, Seven Mills, Dublin 22

They are, but they can only buy whats available. So you arent going to get the same proliferation of social housing that you see with new builds.

This is true.

You can take it further. Apart from the at least 10% Part V requirement, most developers are of the opinion that 2/3 bedroom apartments are essentially unprofitable in most areas to sell directly to people.

A safe assumption is most apartment blocks currently being built will go to either social housing via the council or housing associations like tuath.

Did anyone book here? How was the viewing and houses?

Overnight queue to buy in D22 🤣🤣

I went there last week for the viewing. We were invited for the viewing at 10. After looking at the prices of those houses on sale, I was excited and thought to reach there little early. But to my surprise, I saw a big queue in front of me with atleast 150 people ahead. On checking with people around, I heard some of them stayed overnight at the site. After seeing all these, I lost all my hope of owning a house in Dublin. Prices are cheap if compared with other estates around D22 or Lucan/Adamstown with better connectivity with the city. But again, its a new development with absolutely nothing around within 1km. So it is going to be a risky bet. Congratulations those who managed to book one.

This is not fake. I see myself in the queue. 😊

And will be surrounded by social housing.

An expensive council estate on the fringe of nowhere. But its hard enough to buy anyehere these days, sadly.

Though I dont think those that missed out will be too dissapointed in the long run.

I got one in the end, the house buying journey is awful.

Now the area wise, I don't wanna jinx it, but it ended up being better than I expected. It's quiet, the residents are nice and respectful enough. We are yet so see people moving into duplexes (cost rental), and apartments that are built so far (social/cost rental).

The houses are well built, obviously bare minimum, but people didn't have any major issues so far. Cairn is a bit slow, but they do address issues eventually.

In short, it's a massive construction site now, we will all see how it's gonna turn out in the end. It's also open now, so you can drive around and check it for yourself.

Cheers!

For respond housing, folks in this thread who said you cannot know who's gonna move in were right. This is what they announced so far, taken from Respond website:

318 homes at Seven Mills, Clonburris, Dublin 24, (170 cost rental homes and 148 social homes) in partnership with South Dublin County Council.

We have one car parking spot, but also only one car, so that suits us.

No issues from the canal scramblers so far. If you have windows open sometimes you can hear them racing through the canal in the middle of the night.

I think this section of the canal, especially in Adamston direction isn't that bad.

There are 4 types of the properties, houses (3/4 bed), duplexes (2 and 3 bed), apartments (mostly 1 and 2 bed). What I've seen so far is that houses are mostly private buyers, including affordable purchase scheme.

Duplexes are both private buyers or cost rental.

Apartments so far are exclusively cost rental/social. I hope some of the apartments that are built so far will go on sale. Respond took 318 units, but I think there's more built than that. I would have to compare those numbers with planning docs.

There's a lot more left to build and I assume Cairn will sell to anyone interested.

Yes, I walk along the canal all the time, for my standards it's safe. From what I heard the canal is way rougher towards the city, Bluebell, along Luas line etc. Didn't ever go that far so can't confirm.

For anyone looking at seven mills, I have found out that Respond bought 350 units out of 720 total in Parkleigh, Seven Mills. Think I am going to pull out as it means 25% of the housing will be Respond Social, 25% Cost Rental Respond Social (fine from my understanding) plus min 10% social housing as part of Part V plus 10% affordable housing (also fine).

Pretty sickened tbh as 35% social housing when the houses cost 470K is insane.

Check planning portal:
https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/search-applications/

Yes seems that apt blocks in the first phase will be social/cost rental. I am guessing the ones next to the main road will be social.

The train station sometimes feels abandoned, I've never experienced anti-social behaviour, but I can imagine there would be kids at odd times that are up to no good. I feel this will get resolved soon as it will become busier. During peak times it's perfectly safe and busy enough.

There are kids/youth along the canal, but also there are people on bikes, joggers, dog walkers, families etc. I've never seen them racing, or smoking weed, but I did hear them from time to time.

There's a lot of construction going on; you cannot base the total numbers just on the first phase. My guess is that the first phases will likely end up being cost rental/social housing, probably because nobody wants to buy or pay full rent in a place without any amenities.

If you ask me, as I've commented earlier in the thread, I would put everything on sale. However, for whatever reason, the apartments they are building now would cost €500-600k, and apparently, the developers don't want to risk not being able to sell them.

I've checked the planning documents for you; here are the numbers:

1st phase - 565 units - Almost fully built
171 houses (mostly private owners, most 3bedroom) - almost everyone moved in
148 duplexes (private owners/cost rental? - 2bed/3bed) - about to move in
246 apartments (cost rental/social - 1bed/2bed, a few 3 bed) - moving in later this year?

Now, respond got 318 homes - 170 cost rental homes and 148 social homes. I'm pretty sure all of the social is in apartments and cost rental is spread between apts and duplexes.

2nd phase - 157 units - Almost fully built
81 houses (almost all private owners, mostly 3bedroom) - about to move in
76 apartments (1bed/2bed) - ?

3rd phase - 594 units - Under construction (this is next to the train station)
594 apartments (mostly 1bed/2bed)
retail spaces
office building

4th phase - 565 units - Coming after 3rd phase is complete
230 houses (mostly 3 bedroom)
216 duplexes (2bed/3bed)
119 apartments

with more phases coming down the line…

Very true. The people in the middle income brackets that can avail of cost rental and affordable housing should really be prioritised in these developments.

Majority cost rental/affordable, with a lesser amount to social housing.

Which means a couple or single on 100k should still qualify in Dublin.