Planning precedent report

Planning Permission to install 6 no. antenna and 2 no. transmission dishes on supporting poles together with equipment cabinets, cabling and associated site works at the roof level of Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Rd., Beaumont, Dublin 9. The installation will form part of eir Mobile telecommunications network.

Two number new bike storage units to be located at two separate locations within the Beaumont hospital campus, one to the north-east of the Ashlin Centre and one adjoining an existing surface level car park to the east of the Trim Road entrance. Each bike storage unit will be an enclosed, covered single-storey structure with racks to accommodate 56 no. bikes and additional, dedicated space for parking cargo bikes. The gross development floor area of the new build elements will be 138 sq.m.

PERMISSION: The proposed development comprises the following: Provision of 7-storey ward block (with plant room overhead) to provide healthcare facilities (GFA: 12,655.1 sq.m) comprising 95 no. patient rooms, visitor areas, offices and staff facilities, stair and lift cores, store and plant rooms, with a planted garden at the roof level; Demolition of the following buildings/structures to enable works: Medical Records Building (GFA: 268.2 sq.m); HR and Finance Building (GFA 779.2 sq.m); Block 17 Building (GFA 344.4 sq.m); Hepatology Building (GFA: 469.8 sq.m); Existing Link corridor and associated covered walkway (GFA 471.8 sq.m); Block 16 (GFA: 956.9 sq.m); Retaining Walls & Steps adjacent to existing endoscopy building and wall adjacent to existing hepatology building; Clinical Trials Building (GFA: 133.5 sq.m); Reconfiguration of existing car parking areas to provide 24 no. spaces (net reduction of 7 no. spaces), landscaping, public lighting, boundary wall treatments and extension to the internal access road; & Provision of landscaped courtyard, and all associated development works and services ancillary to the proposed development.

The proposed development will consist of: • Provision of two-storey emergency department to provide healthcare facilities comprising treatment areas, visitor areas, offices and staff facilities, stair and 7-storey lift vertical core, and store and plant rooms (GFA: 10,250.57 sq. m); • Provision of PV solar array at roof level (380 sq. m); • Realignment of a portion of the northern section of Beaumont Hospital Campus access road and associated works; • Provision of ambulatory entrance and bay to northeastern area of the proposed Emergency Department and associated ambulatory set down, parking and charging area; • Removal of 175 no. car parking spaces to facilitate development with the provision of 3 no. accessible car parking spaces (net reduction of 172 no. spaces); • Demolition of the following buildings/structures to enable works: o Block 16 Building (GFA: 956.9 sq. m) o Block 17 Building (GFA: 344.4 sq. m) • Provision of landscaping, public lighting, boundary wall treatments and all associated development works and services ancillary to the proposed development.

The development will comprise of a single-storey temporary modular unit for Emergency Department patient use (c. 104 sq. metres) at lower ground floor level at internal courtyard no.2, to the East of the existing emergency department. The proposed unit will provide a dedicated treatment space for frail elderly patients attending the Emergency Department.

Permission for development at the site at Beaumont Hospital for the development of a new ground floor single storey hybrid theatre to the internal courtyard in conjunction with refurbishment to the existing theatre and supplies department to include for theatre suite, anaesthetic room, scrub, dirty utility, control room, prep room, technical equipment room, toilets, meeting room, recovery store, stores, recovery area, electrical cupboard and office. Theatre plantroom will be located at 1st floor. Gross floor area (existing and proposed) 452m2.