GrantedDecided 25 March 2021Galway City Council

Merlin Park University Hospital, Old Dublin Road, Merlin Park Lane

Planning application 2033
DecisionConditional grant
Decided25 March 2021
Application typePERMISSION
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Application description published by Galway City Council.
Planning permission is sought for the development of lands (c. 1.8HA) within the grounds of Merlin Park University Hospital. The Proposed development will comprise of a two storey, part single storey Community Nursing Unit/ residential care unit (c. 5,100sqm total Gross Floor Area (GFA)). The building comprises of 60 en-suite bedrooms, including a 10 bed dementia unit in the single storey block, with associated resident accommodation including dining rooms, residents areas, visitors room and family overnight room, treatment rooms, hairdresser's salon etc.; Internal courtyard and balcony spaces, back of house areas, staff accommodation and ancillary offices, demolition of existing buildings on site including a carpenter's workshop (280sqm GFA), storerooms (95sqm GFA) and vacant former nurses accommodation building (67sqm GFA) (total area of demolition 442sqm GFA) and construction of replacement carpenters workshop (286sqm GFA) and 4 no. storerooms (Total GFA of 103.5sqm). Permission is also sought for associated landscaping, services yard including waste marshalling area (49sqm) and ESB substation (15sqm), and all associated site and development works, including connection to existing water supply on Merlin Park Lane. The total GFA of the overall development is 5,553.5sqm GFA.

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