Developer can clear trees from site for UCD student accommodation, judge rules

Two local residents had brought the judicial review case over An Bord Pleanála’s permission for the 698-bed eight-block development in Goatstown, Dublin

Mr Justice David Holland vacated a stay he had imposed last October on the removal of trees from the former site of Our Lady's Grove school in Goatstown, about 850m from UCD, by the developers Colbeam Ltd. Picture: Collins Courts

A developer can carry out certain clearance works on a site for a €160m student accommodation project near University College Dublin pending the hearing of a challenge to its planning permission, the High Court has ruled.

Mr Justice David Holland vacated a stay he had imposed last October on the removal of trees from the former site of Our Lady's Grove school in Goatstown, about 850m from UCD, by the developers Colbeam Ltd.