GrantedCommercialDecided 18 February 2021

Site to the rear of Waterloo Exchange at the corner of Waterloo Road and Fleming's Place, Dublin 4

Construction of a six-storey office building over basement on Waterloo Road.

3509/20 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 6 October 2020

Reference: 3509/20
Authority: Dublin City Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 6 October 2020

Summary

AI-generated

The project involves site clearance and partial demolition of an existing car park structure to construct a six-storey office building of 3,990 square metres. It includes a fifth-floor terrace, 24 basement car parking spaces accessed via car lifts, and public realm improvements.

Commercialofficedemolitionredevelopment

Storeys: 6
Floor area: 3,990 m²

Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.

Official record

Development description

The proposed development consists of the following: i) site clearance works including the partial demolition of a car park structure at ground and podium level ii) the construction of a 6 no. Storey office building over basement with a total gross floor area (gfa) of 3,990 sq. M (excluding basement); iii) pedestrian access to the proposed building is provided at ground floor level along the waterloo road frontage leading to reception facilities and the main stair/ lift core. Iv) a south facing terrace is provided at fifth floor level facing fleming's place; v) the proposed development will provide for 24 no. Car parking spaces at basement level (19 no. To serve the proposed development and 5 no. To serve the existing office development as replacement for 84 existing car parking spaces removed ) which will be accessed by a 2 no. Car lifts from ground floor level off fleming's place. Vi) a total of 56 no. New secure bicycle spaces will be provided at ground floor level in addiition to visitor bicycle parking at grade; vii) public realm improvements at ground level to the front of the proposed building along the waterloo road and fleming's place frontage include the removal of trees. Viii) an esb substation and switch room are proposed at ground floor level accessed off fleming's place to the south; ix) all associated site development and services works, landscape works, plant, substation and associated development.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Z6: Employment/EnterpriseSI

“To provide for the creation and protection of enterprise and facilitate opportunities for employment creation.”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

Objective set by the Development Plan 2022-2028 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

Read the zoning objectives in the development plan

Built & sold

What happened next

Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
7 Pembroke Rd, Dublin 4, Dublin	Dec 2025	€2,250,000	78 m
Apt 7, 2 Waterloo Rd, Dublin 4	Nov 2025	€300,000	98 m
Apt 1, 2 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4	Jan 2025	€350,000	104 m
Apt 1, Arranmore, 13-17 Pembroke Road	Nov 2025	€455,000	106 m
Apt 1, 6 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4	Feb 2025	€425,000	110 m
2 Heytesbury Lane, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4	Sept 2025	€2,080,000	138 m
Apsley House, Burlington Rd, Ballsbridgenot full market price	Mar 2026	€446,000	150 m
12 Eastmoreland Place, Dublin 4	Dec 2025	€650,000	166 m

Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.

Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.

Key dates

Timeline

Application received6 October 2020
Further information requested30 November 2020
Further information received22 January 2021
Decision due18 February 2021
Decision issued18 February 2021
Grant issued1 April 2021

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.