Planning precedent report

Construction of a temporary logistics and storage facility within the Clonburris North­West Development Area of the Clonburris Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme 2019. The facility includes the provision of a logistics facility comprising a warehouse (single story pitched roof c.11.356 meters in height) and adjoining unit (single storey pitched roof c. 6.22m in height) with a combined Gross Floor Area of 1,411sq.m; The provision of a single-storey ancillary office and staff facilities to include an office (25sq.m), canteen/ changing area (24.8sq.m), and WC (9sq.m); Vehicular and pedestrian access from the Fonthill Road (R113) to the east, 24 car-parking spaces, 5 HGV set­down parking spaces and turning/loading areas and 18 bicycle parking spaces; All ancillary site development works including attenuation, footpaths, lighting, landscaping boundary treatments and signage; The logistics facility will exist for a temporary period of up to 10 years to facilitate the delivery and storage of building materials throughout the construction phases of the development of the entire Clonburris Strategic Development Zone; The logistics facility will not be open to the general public; This application is being made in accordance with the Clonburris Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme 2019 and relates to a proposed development within the Clonburris Strategic Development Planning Scheme Area, as defined by Statutory Instrument No. 604 of 2015 all on wider lands bounded generally by Thomas Omer Way (L 1059) to the north, the Dublin-Cork railway line to the south, the Fonthill Road (R 113) to the east and undeveloped lands to the west.

The proposed development will consist of the temporary storage of inert soil and stone generated by construction and development activity and imported as waste under licence or as by-product (in accordance with Article 27 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011 (as amended)) as a non-waste by-product on a 3.87-hectare site within the Clonburris North-West Development Area of the Clonburris Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme 2019. The proposed development will include for: i. The provision of temporary soil and stone storage for later re-distribution and use within the Clonburris SDZ; ii. The proposed fill material will be stored in 2 no. stockpiles of c.90,000m3 and 18,000m3. iii. The proposed 2 no. stockpiles will provide for a combined c.108,000m3 of material to be stored on site and will be c.6m in height; iv. Vehicular and pedestrian access will be provided via approved access off the Fonthill Road (R113), which will also serve the Logistics Facility as approved under Reg. Ref. SDZ23A/0016. The proposed inert soil and stone stockpiles will be temporary in nature and will be operational for an anticipated 7-year time period. It will then be decommissioned, and the subject lands will be restored and developed in line with the Clonburris Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme 2019.

The proposed development consists of the construction of 233 no. dwellings which are comprised of: 78 no. 2 & 3 bed, 2 storey, detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, 56 no. 2 & 3 bed duplex units in 8 no. 3 storey buildings and 99 no. 1, 2 & 3 bed apartments in 2 no. 3-5 and 4-6 storey buildings. Access to the development will be from two new vehicular accesses from the Ninth Lock Road to the east and via the permitted road network i.e. the Clonburris Northern Link Street, (under Ref. SDZ24A/0033W) which provides access from the Ninth Lock Road to the east and the R113, Fonthill Road to the west. The proposed development will connect into the permitted infrastructural works as approved under the Clonburris Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme (2019) and permitted under Ref. SDZ24A/0033W. The proposed development also provides for all associated site development works and infrastructure to facilitate the development (above and below ground), public & communal open spaces, hard & soft landscaping and boundary treatments, surface car parking (192 no. spaces), bicycle parking (351 no. spaces), bin & bicycle storage, public lighting, plant (M&E) etc.

New stainless stell and glass bus shelter, 5.2m x 1.85m x 2.8m high with 2 internally illuminated advertising panels each of 2.0sq.m area on the public footpath.

Permission to sub-divide site; construct a two storey family home to incorporate existing garage and extend over portion of the living room of the existing dwelling house, also a new entrance to front of site, opening a new pedestrian side access and all necessary and ancillary site works and services to side of existing house.

The development will consist of amendments to the permitted development as approved by South Dublin County Council under Planning Reg. Ref. SDZ22A0018 comprising in the Clonburris Development Areas CUCS3 & CSWS3 of the Clonburris SDZ Planning Scheme 2019 as follows: A) Reconfiguration of internal arrangement in Block E to allow for the replacement of 5 no. permitted 1 bedroom apartments with 5 no. 2 bedroom apartments at first floor to fifth floor levels within Block E (facing internal courtyard), and the replacement of 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments with 2 no. 2 bedroom apartments at ground floor level of Block G and H to result in an overall mix of 257 no. 1 bedroom apartments, 318 no. 2 bedroom apartments and 32 no. 3 bedroom apartments (no change to overall no. of permitted apartments) and all associated elevation changes; B) Reconfiguration and amendment to floor areas of retail/café/retail service units and associated alterations to internal podium level to result in an overall increase of c. 51 sq. m of Gross Floor Area (an overall increase from 1,150 sq. m to 1,201 sq. m), and all internal reconfigurations; C) Inclusion of green roof in place of pitched roof along portion of Block A (eastern block - no change to internal arrangements or profile fronting onto external street); D) Amendments to undercroft car parking arrangements to now provide 378 no. car parking spaces (compared to 385 no. car parking spaces permitted) and alterations to cycle parking in bike stores and surface spaces to now provide 1,620 no. cycle spaces (compared to 1,548 no. cycle spaces permitted) and all internal/external reconfigurations.