Site planning risk brief

The construction of a two-storey motor sales and service facility (gross floor area of 2,460sqm) comprising two motor showrooms, service workshop, parts store and customer facilities at ground floor with, office, staff canteen and toilets at first floor and a gated compound containing bin storage area, car wash facility, a single storey 181sqm valet/web display building and 17 staff parking spaces. The development also comprises illuminated buildings signage, 28 customer parking spaces (including 3 electric vehicle charging bays), c. 124 car bays for the purposes of service parking, parts collection and display (including 2 under a canopy structure), covered cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping, lamp standards, 2 free standing illuminated signs, 1 free standing illuminated directional sign, 6 display vehicle podiums, plant, public footpath to site perimeter, wastewater rising main in public road/footpath discharging to existing wastewater gravity manhole at the Newhall Retail Park entrance roundabout and all associated site development works on a 2.75 acre site adjacent to the Bundle of Sticks roundabout,

For a motor sales and vehicle service facility located on a greenfield site of c.1.2 ha. The site is bounded by: the Bundle of Sticks Roundabout in the northeast; the R445 to the northwest; developed land in the southwest; and Local Road L6066 in the southeast. The development will consist of the provision of a building comprising a 1 and 2 storey motor sales showroom and a vehicle service garage / workshop (all with parts store, ancillary offices, staff and customer facilities and ancillary spaces) (and associated ancillary spaces) (c. 2,707 sq m) with a single storey web display and valet bay building (c. 170 sq m), all with a total gross floor area of c. 2,877 sq m.The development also includes the following signage: Northeast elevation: 2 no. illuminated suspended fascia signs (c. 4.14 sq m each), and 1 no. illuminated logo sign (c. 3.24 sq m); Northwest elevation: 2 no. illuminated logo signs (c. 3.24 sq m each), 1 no. illuminated location sign (c. 0.61 sq m), 1 no. logo and dealer sign (c. 1.56 sq m) and 1 no. glazed entrance manifestation sign (c. 2.07 sq m); Southeast Elevation: 1 no. illuminated dealer sign and with 1 no. illuminated logo sign (c. 0.94 sqm and 2.19 sq m, respectively); 4 no. free standing signs, comprising 1 no. single-sided partially illuminated façade screen sign (30.66 sq m), 1 no. double-sided partially illuminated totem sign (c. 31.42 sq m), 2 no. double-sided illuminated totem signs (c. 10.44 sq m and c. 1.62 sq m, respectively).The development will also comprise: a canopied car wash; a gated compound with bin storage, display podiums, staff and customer vehicular parking (including EV charging); Photovoltaic (PV) panels; service bays; new and used vehicle display and demonstration areas, vehicle storage, cycle parking, and landscaping; new vehicular and pedestrian entry / egress point on Local Road L6066; public footpath and bus stop to the R445; plant and pumping station; associated site servicing (foul and surface water drainage and water supply) and service connections, which includes the provision of surface water run-off discharge connection to the existing surface water sewer in the south and provision of a wastewater rising main to existing public sewer in the northeast; SUDs measures; lighting; hard and soft landscaping provision: boundary treatments: and all other site excavation and development works above and below ground

(a) Form a new entrance to the site from the public road; (b) Block up existing entrance to the site from the public road; (c) Retention of change of use of land previously zoned for industry and warehousing, to use for the temporary storage of mobilized and immobilized vehicles; (d) Retention of 3 No. portacabins (1 No. for use as an office, 1 No. for use as a canteen, and 1 No. for use as a general store); (e) Retention of security palisade fencing to sub-divide the site; (f) Installation of an oil/water separator; (g) Installation of floodlighting cowled away from the public road; (h) Together with all associated site works. A waste facility permit application relating to this site will be submitted separately to Kildare County Council Environment Section. The proposed works to take place

A new single storey pavilion café, (172 sq. meters) for the sale and consumption, on and off the premises of food and beverages, together with all necessary ancillary site works, including external seating, signage, landscaping and reconfiguration of existing car-park, to include customer vehicle circulation route and collection point, all to be located in the existing carpark

For the proposed change of use of this unit from retail warehouse to use as a gym, the provision of a mezzanine floor, associated stair cores, gym user facilities and ancillary staff areas to facilitate this change of use; new elevational signage; and all associated works necessary to facilitate the development

Change of use of existing stand alone single storey structure located to the rear of existing commercial motor premises (floor area 108m2) from existing office and storage use to proposed wholesale retail use