Site planning risk brief

The proposed development comprises the following: Provision of three- storey building, to provide an endoscopy unit (GFA: 4,132 sq.m) comprising 18 no. patient rooms, 7 no. treatment rooms, 2 no. recovery rooms, office and staff facilities, decontamination unit, stairs and lift core, store and overhead plant rooms and includes for a green roof; Provision of roof mounted solar array (129 sq. m); Removal of the existing carpark comprising of 70 no. car parking spaces and 6 no. accessible car parking spaces to facilitate development with the provision of 3 no. accessible parking spaces (net loss of 73 no. car parking spaces); • Alterations to façade of adjoining hospital building to facilitate linkage; Provision of 60 no. bay enclosed bike store (GFA: 69 sq. m), Provision of landscaping, boundary 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.

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.

The proposed development comprises the erection of the roof mounted PV panels at rooftop level on the Smurfit Building at Beaumont Hospital, comprising a total array of 693 sq.m of PV panels, including a vertically mounted array of 45 sq.m of PV panels to the southern elevation of the rooftop plant room.

PERMISSION for the development of a new ground floor, single storey electrical switchroom to be located within an existing external courtyard. Gross floor area of new-build element will be 44m2.

Permission is sought for a single-storey extension (28 sq.metres) at lower ground floor level in the courtyard at the east side of the Radiology Department to house offices at Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin 9.