Site planning risk brief

Change of use from warehouse to padel tennis sports facility, with minor internal modifications, including reception, ancillary cafe, seating area, bathrooms / changing rooms, and all associated and ancillary site works.

Planning permission is sought for 2 no. Outdoor Padel tennis court facilities with protected screening around both playing surface, permission also sort to operate a social wine service at existing ancillary cafe located internally and all associated site works

Planning permission is sought for 1 no. Outdoor Padel tennis court facilities with protected screening around playing surface, permission sought for this outdoor playing facility for a period of 5 years only and all associated site works

Retention permission for alterations to existing buildings to include, over cladding of brick facade at ground floor level, blocking up of roller shutter doors and over cladding of same and new fire escape doors at Building 1, Units 1a, 1b, 1c, Cookstown Estate Road. Removal of dormant fire escape stairs, over cladding of facade, blocking up of roller shutter doors and over cladding of same and new fire escape doors at Buildings 81a and 81b, Cookstown Estate Road. Demolition of car wash annex building and over cladding of facade at Buildings 2 & 3, at Old Belgard Rd.

Change of use from Warehouse to Gym facility, with minor internal modifications including reception area, changing/shower rooms, studio and office all with associated and ancillary site works and external signage.

(i) Demolition of the existing industrial and commercial buildings (15,989sq.m); (ii) construction of a mixed-use development featuring: (a) 1104 'build-to-rent' apartments in 4 blocks varying in height from four to eleven storeys. Each apartment has associated private open space in the form of a ground floor terrace or a balcony and has access to internal communal amenity spaces (totalling 2741sqm) and 5,107sqm of external communal amenity space at ground, first floor and roof levels; and (b) 4 commercial units at ground floor level of Blocks B and D (comprising of 2 in Block B accommodating a cafe/restaurant/bar; 1 in Block D accommodating Class 1, 2 and 8 uses as per the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001-2019, as amended; and 1 in Block D to serve the Circle K Belgard petrol station which is to be retained), 1,500sqm of office space across first to sixth floor levels of Block D and a crèche with external play area at ground floor level of Block C. The development is served by a total of 351 parking spaces (including 17 limited mobility parking spaces and 16 car share spaces) and 1860 bicycle spaces (1464 resident spaces and 396 visitor spaces); (iii) road, junction and streetscape upgrade works along First Avenue, Cookstown Road and Old Belgard Road, including the installation a signalised junction at the intersection of First Avenue and Cookstown Road and Old Belgard Road and Cookstown Road; (iv) construction of 3 new roads and 1 pedestrian/cycle link to the Belgard Luas Stop; (v) construction of a 1,688sqm landscaped public plaza with an outdoor flexible events space in the south-western corner of the site; and (vi) associated site and infrastructural works are also proposed which include: foul and surface water drainage; attenuation tanks; lighting; landscaping; boundary fences; plant areas; ESB substations; internal hard landscaping, including footpaths and street furniture; and all associated site development works. Any person may, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by An Bord Pleanála of the application and on payment of the prescribed fee of €20 (except for certain prescribed bodies), make a submission or observations in writing to An Bord Pleanála, 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1 or online at www.pleanala.ie. Any enquiries relating to the application process should be directed to the Strategic Housing Development Section of An Bord Pleanála (Tel. 01-8588100).