GrantedCommercialDecided 20 December 2024

Site (c. 0.22ha) at Mespil Court, Mespil Road and Burlington Road, Dublin 4, D04 E516

A three-storey mixed-use extension and new building containing offices, a café, and a roof garden.

WEB2434/24 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 6 November 2024

Reference: WEB2434/24
Authority: Dublin City Council
Register status: Appealed
Type: Permission
Received: 6 November 2024

Summary

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The development consists of a three-storey mixed-use extension including a raised bridge office extension connected to Mespil Court. It also includes a new three-storey building featuring a ground-floor café, two floors of offices, and a first-floor roof garden.

Commercialofficecafeextensioncommercial

Storeys: 3
Floor area: 1,085 m²

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Official record

Development description

The site is generally bounded by buildings in office use to the south, no. 39 mespil road (protected structure) to the west, and by mespil road and the grand canal to the north. The development will consist of a 3-storey mixed use building extension comprising: a 2-storey, raised bridge, office extension adjoining the 2nd and 3rd floors of the existing mespil court office building on its northwestern elevation; external plant room at 1st floor and office core extending down to ground floor level (total gfa c. 723.5 sqm). Proposed condenser units to the existing office roof. A 3-storey, mixed use building comprising: 1no. Café at ground floor, with ancillary storage and staff facilities (total gfa c. 107 sqm) and associated external terrace at ground level; 2no. Floors of offices at 1st and 2nd floors, with associated support facilities (total gfa c. 254.5 sqm); roof garden at 1st floor. All ancillary and associated site development, infrastructural, landscaping, signage and site boundary works, including: 30 no. Spaces, two tier bike racks in a bicycle store (27.5 sqm)
No. Semi vertical bike racks to replace existing bike racks; new bin store (13 sqm); 2 no. Sheffield stands in the front curtilage (visitors) and 1 no. Sheffield stand by the bin store; ground floor plant room (27 sqm); signage zones to northern and eastern ground floor elevations of café unit (c. 12 sqm total), and totem sign (c. 3 sqm) associated with office within front curtilage adjacent to mespil road site boundary; removal of existing boundary wall and railing fronting mespil road; and, insertion of new pedestrian access control gate to the eastern boundary pathway, south of the proposed café entrance; associated green and blue roofs, and drainage for the proposed new works

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

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Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
11 Burlington Gardens, Burlington Rd, Dublin 4	Dec 2025	€660,000	75 m
99 Burleigh Court, Burlington Rd, Dublin 4	Apr 2026	€440,000	81 m
63 Burleigh Court, Burlington Rd, Dublin 4	Jan 2026	€440,000	81 m
31 Burlington Gardens, Burlington Rd, Ballsbridge Dublin 4	Sept 2025	€660,000	88 m
19 Rowan House, Mespil Estate, Sussex Rd Dublin 4	Jun 2026	€392,000	140 m
14 Rowan House, Mespil Estate, Dublin 4	Sept 2025	€305,000	140 m
12 Rowan House, Mespil Estate, Dublin 4	Sept 2025	€285,000	140 m
Apt 22, Burleigh Court, Burlington Rd Dublin 4	Mar 2025	€585,000	151 m

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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 November 2024
Decision due9 January 2025
Decision issued20 December 2024
Appeal submitted20 January 2025
Appeal decided4 June 2025
Permission expiry18 July 2030

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