Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedEnergyDecided 8 July 2021

Woodlands & Former Diamond Innovations Site, Clonshaugh Business & Technology Park, Dublin 17

Construction of two large data centre buildings in Clonshaugh.

3803/20 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 25 November 2020

Reference
3803/20
Authority
Dublin City Council
Register status
Decided
Type
Permission
Received
25 November 2020

Summary

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The proposed development comprises two 2-storey data centre buildings, each 16,576 square meters, with a height of 16 meters. The project includes offices, data halls, 16 emergency generators, water storage tanks, a client control building, and the demolition of a substation.

Energydata centredemolitiongeneratorssolar
Storeys
2
Floor area
33,152 m²

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Official record

Development description

  • The proposed development comprises: 1.2 no. 2 storey data centre buildings (each 16,576 sqm), which are 16m in height at the main parapet level. Each building to include: office administration area, data halls, associated electrical and mechanical plant rooms, a loading bay, maintenance and storage spaces, screened plant and solar panel array at roof level, with rainwater harvesting system to support industrial water requirements. 16 no. Emergency generators with emission stacks along with a single emergency house supply generator, all contained in a fenced compound adjacent to each building. Diesel storage tank, fuel filling area and associated plant. 2.1 no. Water sprinkler pump room (68 sqm), water storage tanks and humidifier tanks (175 sqm all inclusive). 3.1 no. Single storey client control building (216 sqm) and 2 no. Transformers set within a fenced compound
  • Demolition of 26 sqm substation building
  • Partial diversion and undergrounding of esb overhead lines
  • Construction of internal site road network and circulation areas connecting to existing internal road network to the south, footpaths, provision of 100 no. Car parking spaces, 4 no. Motorcycle spaces and with 68 no. Cycle parking spaces within a bicycle shelter, all accessed via existing campus to the south
  • Temporary construction access road along western boundary
  • Landscaping and planting including provision of planted berms to the eastern and northern boundary
  • Perimeter security fencing, site lighting, bollards, camera poles, bin stores and all associated and ancillary site works including underground utility cables, water supply, foul and storm drainage network & over ground attenuation pond. All on an application site area measuring 11.52 hectares. An environmental impact assessment report (eiar) will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application and the eiar will be available from inspection or purchase, at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, during public opening hours at the offices of dublin city council

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.

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Built & sold

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Built — construction complete

A commencement notice records works starting on 23 September 2021. A completion certificate was lodged on 24 June 2024.

Notified floor area: 16,576 m²

12 commencement notices are linked to this development.

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

  1. Application received25 November 2020
  2. Further information requested10 May 2021
  3. Further information received14 May 2021
  4. Decision due8 July 2021
  5. Decision issued8 July 2021
  6. Grant issued20 August 2021

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