GrantedDecided 12 June 2019Dublin City Council

"Boston Sidings Site" at Grand Canal Quay and Macken Street, Dublin 2

Planning application 2808/19
DecisionGrant permission
Decided12 June 2019
Application typePermission
Source documentsPending

Site

What is on file

0refusal reasons0conditions8nearby records

Proposed development

Application description published by Dublin City Council.
Permission for development at this site (0.37ha) known as "Boston Sidings Site" at Grand Canal Quay and Macken Street, Dublin 2. (Lands bound by Clanwilliam Square to the south, Grand Canal Quay to the east, the Dublin - Rosslare mainline railway to the north and Macken Villas and Macken Street to the west). The development will consist of construction of a 10 storey over basement office development with setbacks at 5th and 7th floor levels an external terrace areas at 5th, 6th and 7th floor levels with a gross floor area of 19,856sq.m. The proposed accommodation will consist of office (designed for single or multiple tenancies) and ancillary uses with associated lift and stair cores with pedestrian, cycle and vehicular access from Grand Canal Quay. The development of the site will be facilitated by removal of the existing fill material within the site to create a new ground level fronting Grand Canal Quay and modifications to the existing eastern boundary wall to Grand Canal Quay (currently c.45m in length) involving demolition of c.15.8m of the wall and the creation of openings within the remaining c.29.2m to provide visual and physical access to the proposed office accommodation behind. The proposed ground floor accommodation comprises office reception and foyer areas fronting Grand Canal Quay with office and ancillary accommodation to the rear. A proposed landscaped access route separates the proposed office block from the existing boundary wall with Clanwilliam Square to the south which is to be structurally secured and retained. This route provides access to the rear (western end) of the block which accommodates ancillary accommodation including bicycle parking (199no. spaces), bin storage, plant rooms, staff facilities and an ESB substation. A car lift provides access to the basement accommodation incorporating 25no. car parking spaces and ancillary plant and storage rooms. Above ground floor level accommodation includes a mezzanine floor level with office and additional ancillary plant and storage rooms and 8 levels of office accommodation above. Permission is also sought for hard and soft landscaping within the site, external lighting, screened plant area at 8th floor level and all ancillary site and development works. The existing Macken Street entrance will be maintained to facilitate continued access by Iarnod Eireann/CIE to the existing signalling building which will be retained on site adjacent to the proposed office building.

Application and appeal history

Structured appeal stages, outcomes and source documents currently tied to this application.
ABP-304878-19Submitted 15 July 2019 / decided 07 October 2019
Status not recordedGRANT PERMISSION
  1. Appeal submittedAppeal reference ABP-304878-19
    15 July 2019
  2. Appeal decisionGRANT PERMISSION
    07 October 2019
No appeal document has been bound to this case yet; the timeline will enrich as indexing continues.

Decision details

Core application dates and identifiers from the public planning record.

Planning analysis

Refusal reasons and planning conditions extracted from the public decision file.

Refusal reasons

No refusal reason on record

Documents are indexed. Reason extraction for Dublin City is in progress.

Conditions

No conditions

No conditions are on record for this application yet.

Planning a project near "Boston Sidings Site" at Grand Canal Quay and Macken Street, Dublin 2?

Get a site risk brief with the local decision pattern and up to 80 detailed nearby comparables (40 refusals and 40 grants), including extracted reasons and source links. €39 incl. VAT, PDF by email.Searching the records is free. A one-off brief for this site is €39, and Pro at €19/month adds full document access and the planning AI for people tracking more than one site.

Source documents

Original council portal records and source PDFs where available.

Source link pending

This application was published at source, but the document inventory has not been bound yet.

Nearby precedent

Similar nearby applications linked to this planning decision.
Get up to 80 detailed nearby comparables in a site risk brief →