Planning precedent report

Planning application for the construction of a Security Hut at the IDA site in Clonshaugh. The proposed single-storey security hut at the IDA Site located at the junction of Oscar Traynor Road and Clonshaugh Road, within Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park, Dublin 17. The development will consist of a proposed structure approximately 3.3 meters in height, featuring zinc cladding and high-security finishes. There are no protected structures on the site.

RETENTION: Retention Permission for development at a site located at Units 15/16 Business & Technology Park, Clonshaugh, Dublin 17. The development comprises a modification to Permission DCC Ref. 2229/19 (currently under construction) granted for a 2 storey data centre, (with generator yard and all associated works). The development now provides a larger, single storey substation (increased in size from c.34.5 sq.m (as permitted) to c.68.4 sq.m) and located to the south-west of the data centre building as per the parent permission DCC Ref. 2229/19.

Planning permission for development at a site of c.3.1ha comprising Units 15/16, Clonshaugh Business & Technology Park, Clonshaugh, Dublin 17. The development will comprise the following: Demolition of existing former industrial buildings (c.7,400 sq.m total GFA), associated plant and hard-standing. Construction of a 2 storey data centre including data halls, offices/admin, staff areas, storage/loading areas, circulation, UPS rooms, and roof plant (total floor area c.9,250 sq.m). Provision of a generator yard with 3 no. buildings (total floor area c.275 sq.m) housing 5 no. back-up generators. Provision of a substation building (floor area c.34.5sq.m), waste compound building (floor area c.16sq.m), 14 no. car parking spaces, 10 no. bicycle parking spaces, internal roads, docking/service yard, site lighting, new entrance gate, new security fencing to replace existing fencing. All associated site development works, landscape works and services provision. Total floor area of the proposed development is c.9,520.5m.

Permission for development on a site at Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park, Dublin 17. The subject site (with an area of c. 3.75 ha) comprises the site of former Units 15 and 16 (previously demolished) and the former Ricoh Building. The site is located to the north of the Santry River and the R104 Oscar Traynor Road, to the west of Clonshaugh Road, and to the south and east of existing estate roads. The proposed development, for which a seven-year permission is sought, comprises the following: -Demolition of the existing former Ricoh building, and all other associated site clearance works including removal of existing site services and ESB pillar boxes (other buildings previously occupying the site were demolished under Reg. Ref: 2229/19, a previously permitted data centre development, as amended by Reg.Ref:3200/20); -Construction of two data centre buildings (Data Centre A and Data Centre B), with a gross floor area (GFA) of c. 12,875 sq.m and c. 1,455 sq.m respectively, each over two storeys (with Data Centre A also including two mezzanine levels), with plant at roof level; -Data Centre A will be located in the northern portion of the site, with a parapet height of c.19.8 metres and will accommodate data halls, associated electrical and mechanical plant rooms, a loading bay, maintenance and storage space, office administration areas, with plant and solar panels at roof level; -Data Centre B (which will be ancillary to Data Centre A) will be located to the south of Data Centre A, with a parapet height of c.12.8 metres and will accommodate data halls, associated electrical and mechanical plant rooms, a loading bay, maintenance and storage space, office administration areas, with plant at roof level; -Emergency generators and associated flues will be provided within compounds adjoining each of the two data centre buildings (11 no. for Data Centre A and 1 no. for Data Centre B). -The development includes a diesel tank and a filling area to serve the proposed emergency generators; -Ancillary structures including a sprinkler tank and pumphouse, security building, MV building, and provision of two additional MV substation rooms to the existing substation on site (c. 115 sq.m additional GFA), which was previously constructed under Reg. Ref.: 2229/19 as amended by Reg. Ref.:3200/20. -Construction of access arrangements and internal road network and circulation areas, footpaths, provision of car parking (58 no. spaces) and bicycle parking (24 no. spaces); and -Hard and soft landscaping and planting, lighting, boundary treatments, and all associated and ancillary works including underground foul and storm water drainage network, and utility cables.

The development will consist of: (i) removal of existing vehicular entrance/access roadway and provision of 2no. new vehicular entrance gates and 1 no. pedestrian entrance gate off the Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park campus roadway; (ii) construction of 1 no. single-storey warehouse, with ancillary office accommodation, building (3,955sq.m) with solar/pv panels at roof level; (iii) provision of 2 no. parking bays comprising a total of 20 no. car parking spaces (inclusive of 5 no. accessible spaces) and 3 no. bicycle racks comprising a total of 24 no. bicycle parking spaces; and, (iv) all associated site development works, including landscaping, boundary treatment and, SuDS drainage works, necessary to facilitate the development.

PERMISSION & RETENTION: The development seeking retention permission consists of the provision of a vehicular entrance 2.6m wide to the front of the property; the development seeking permission will consist of widening that vehicular entrance to 3.75m wide and all associated site works.