NUIG Campus, (Adjacent to NUIG Sports Centre), Galway
Alterations to a prefab building on the NUIG Campus to convert a laboratory into student meeting rooms.
17360 · Galway City Council · Lodged 19 December 2017
- Reference
- 17360
- Authority
- Galway City Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 19 December 2017
- Residential units
- 1
- Floor area
- 100 m²
Summary
AI-generatedThe development consists of altering an existing prefab building adjacent to the NUIG Sports Centre. Works include a new fit-out to convert a laboratory into student meeting rooms, new window and door openings, and the removal of a porch to make it a standalone building.
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Official record
Development description
Permission for alterations to an existing pre-fab building on nuig campus, (adjacent to nuig sports centre), newcastle, galway. The alterations to include a new fit out of existing laboratory building into student meeting rooms, new/revised window and door punch outs to external envelope of building and the removal of a common porch entrance on east elevation of pre-fab in question separating it from existing laboratory buildings making at a stand alone building
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To provide for institutional and community facility use”
National zoning type: Community facilities
Objective set by the Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (2023–2029). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
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Key dates
Timeline
- Application received19 December 2017
- Decision due21 February 2018
- Decision issued21 February 2018
- Grant issued28 March 2018
- Permission expiry27 March 2023
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