Planning precedent report

RETENTION: Retention Planning Permission to permanently retain a previously permitted temporary site entrance/access gate (Planning Reg. Refs. 3804/11 & 4179/16) on the Collins Avenue frontage of the Dublin City University Glasnevin Campus (located to the eastern side of the Nano-bioanalytical Research Facility).The site entrance access gate will be retained to facilitate, on a limited, managed and controlled basis, access/egress for maintenance, services and construction traffic and activities in support of DCU's ongoing Capital Development Program. The site entrance/gate will also operate from time to time to facilitate access/egress to and from the DCU Glasnevin Campus for specific events, activities and emergency access requirements. It is not intended to use the site entrance/access gate for normal and regular access to the DCU Glasnevin Campus on a daily basis.

The proposed development comprises new solar panels and new safety guard-railing on existing flat roof and extension in height of two existing rooftop service enclosures to accommodate new Air Handling Units and associated works.

Development will consist of the following: Site clearance of temporary car park and partial demolition of boundary wall.The construction of a 5 storey (9140sqm floor area) general teaching, health and human performance, STEM and administration building comprising exercise studio, research and teaching laboratories, information technology suites, general teaching spaces, staff and subject area offices, sanitary facilities, changing rooms, waste storage areas, basement plant and screened plant at high level. • External works include upgrade to landscaping to full perimeter of building (overall site area 0.49 ha) consisting hard landscaping, plant beds, trees and external furniture, upgrade to existing campus access road surface, reinforced grass access route from Collins Avenue to gas skid with access gates and fencing, 1 no parking bay to be created on Collins Avenue for maintenance access. • All associated site development site services and landscaping works.

Alterations to a previously granted Planning Permission (Ref no. 2686/20). The application requests the removal of Condition No.3 of a previously issued grant of Planning Permission, which relates to construction of a 5 storey (9140 sqm floor area) general teaching, health and human performance, stem and administration building. Condition No.3 requires that the applicant shall 'incorporate a physical link at ground floor level via the proposed atrium of the proposed building providing for a pedestrian route from the existing campus northwards onto Collins Avenue where a doorway will be provided'. This application proposes that there be no external access from the atrium onto Collins Avenue.

The development will comprise the change of use of the bank unit at the ground floor level (211.3sq m) to educational use.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of the erection of a new mesh type fence 433 metres long and 2.4 metres high located along DCU's southern legal boundary with Elmhurst Nursing Home and Hillside Farm. The proposed fence would incorporate semi-mature hedging on both sides and include 3 no. gate entry points from main campus to allow for future connectivity. The development is located within the curtilage of Protected Structure(s).