The HSE has filed a planning application for a new health-care centre at the Gulistan bring centre site in Rathmines.
Among the new features in the proposed centre, the HSE lists physiotherapy and paediatric gyms, dining rooms, an older person’s day-care centre, and a therapeutic garden courtyard across 0.3 ha within the depot.
It’s good to have finally reached the stage where the HSE has put in planning to build the centre here, said Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey on Monday evening. “This has been going on for nearly 20 years.”
The proposed primary care centre is only one aspect of the depot’s redevelopment, as the council also intends to build 148 homes on the site, as well as a community centre and civic plaza, a spokesperson for the council said on Tuesday.
Dublin City Council appointed the approved housing body Clúid to develop these homes, which consist of age-friendly, “general needs”, and cost-rental accommodation, they said.
