Social Housing PPP Bundle 3
Page last updated: 10/05/22
Project Background
The Social Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme is designed to deliver:
- the development of approximately 1,500 housing units via 3 project ‘bundles’ of sites;
- the provision of services to the developments over a 25 year period following construction that will include the maintenance and upkeep of the housing and tenancy management services; and
- the return of the developments to the relevant local authorities after 25 years in prime condition.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is the approving authority for the programme with the NDFA as financial advisor, procuring authority and project manager.
All homes in the first and second bundles have been delivered.
Bundle 1 includes 534 homes across 6 sites. Further details can be found here.
Bundle 2 includes 465 homes across 8 sites. Further details can be found here.
Project Details
Dublin City Council is acting as lead local authority for the third bundle of the Social Housing PPP Programme.
The location of the 6 sites and indicative number of homes is as follows:
| Site | Local Authority | Indicative No. of Homes (pending design and planning) |
| Ready Mix Site, East Wall, Dublin 3 | Dublin City Council | 68 |
| Shangan Road, Ballymun, Dublin 9 | Dublin City Council | 93* |
| Collins Avenue, Whitehall, Dublin 9 | Dublin City Council | 83 |
| Ardrew, Athy, Co. Kildare | Kildare Co. Council | 73 |
| Rathellen, Finisklin, Co. Sligo | Sligo Co. Council | 63 |
| Burgage More, Blessington, Co. Wicklow | Wicklow Co. Council | 106 |
| Total | c.486 |
* Senior Citizen Homes
Project Team
| Approving Authority | Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage |
| Sponsoring Agency / Lead Local Authority | Dublin City Council |
| Local Authorities | Dublin City Council, Kildare Co. Council, Wicklow Co. Council, Sligo Co. Council |
| Procuring Authority / Project Management | NDFA |
| Financial Advisor | NDFA |
| Legal Advisor | Eversheds Sutherland |
| Insurance Advisor | - |
| Planning Advisor | MacCabe Durney Barnes |
| Architectural Advisor | Coady Architects & Sean Harrington Architects |
| Civil & Structural Engineers | RPS Consulting Engineers |
| Mechanical & Electrical Engineers | Semple McKillop |
| PSDP | Turner & Townsend |
| Quantity Surveyor | Currie & Brown |
Procurement and Latest News
Advisors have been appointed to the Project Team as shown above. A number of these were procured through a multi-party framework programme (details available here).
A Prior Information Notice (PIN) for the project was published in March 2021. Click here to view the PIN notice.
The statutory consent process is underway for a number of the sites and it is expected that it will have commenced for all sites in Q1 2022.
Publication of the OJEU notice is currently anticipated in Q2 2022.