GrantedCommercialDecided 28 April 2021

Dock Road & Saint Alphonsus Street, Limerick

Demolition of three industrial buildings to build a new discount foodstore and convert a protected office building into a café.

20457 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 4 June 2020

Reference: 20457
Authority: Limerick County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 4 June 2020

Summary

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The project involves demolishing three warehousing and office buildings to construct a three-storey equivalent licensed discount foodstore with rooftop solar panels. It also includes converting an existing single-storey protected office building into a café with outdoor seating.

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Storeys: 3
Floor area: 2,716 m²

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Official record

Development description

The demolition of 3 no. Warehousing/industrial/office buildings and associated structures (totalling 4,145 sqm gross floor area and ranging in height between one and three storey), the change of use of an existing single storey office building (protected structure no. 260) to café/coffee shop with associated internal alterations (109 sqm gross floor area) site development works and outdoor plaza seating area, and the construction of a licenced discount foodstore of 3 storey equivalent height (2,715.9 sqm gross floor area) with undercroft and surface vehicular parking at ground floor, sales and checkout area with ancillary off-licence at first floor, and internal plant room at mezzanine second floor. The construction of the proposed licenced discount foodstore will also include rooftop photovoltaic solar panel array (907.5 sqm), corporate signage consisting of 3 no. Building mounted corporate internally illuminated signs, 2 no. Free standing internally illuminated flagpole signs, 2 no. Wall mounted externally illuminated poster panel display boards and 1 no. Externally illuminated poster display board, undercroft parking providing 53 no. Car parking spaces, surface car park providing a total of 100 no. Car parking spaces, (consisting of 8 no. Disabled, 5 no. Parent and child, 2 no. Ev charging spaces and 85 no. Regular) and 16 no. Bicycle parking spaces, boundary treatments, hard and soft landscaping, services (including 1 no. Below ground attenuation tank) and all other ancillary and associated site development works above and below ground level. Primary vehicular and pedestrian access to the proposed development will be provided via a new site entrance from dock road. Secondary vehicular and pedestrian access to the proposed development will be via the existing access off saint alphonsus street, upgraded and enhanced as part of the proposed development. Pedestrian access to the proposed development will be further enhanced via a new plaza/public realm area along the north western boundary of the site with dock road, linking to the north eastern boundary of the site with saint alphonsus street at the proposed café/coffee shop (protected structure no. 260) all on a site of approximately 0.76 hectares. The planning application is accompanied by a natura impact statement (nis)

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

City CentreUC

“To protect, consolidate and facilitate the development of the City Centre commercial, retail, educational, leisure, residential, social and community uses and facilities.”

National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area

Objective set by the Limerick 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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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
9 Clyde Mews, Dock Rd, Limerick	Aug 2025	€195,000	123 m
13 St James Mews, St Alphonsus St, Limerick	Apr 2025	€248,000	132 m
7 Clyde Hill Mews, St Alphonsus St, Limerick	Sept 2025	€240,000	135 m
14 St James Mews, St Alphonsus St, Limerick	Jan 2025	€252,000	138 m
1 Clyde Hill Mews, Alphonsus St, Limerick	Jan 2026	€273,000	159 m
1 Clyde Hill Mews, Alphonsus St, Limerick	Jan 2026	€273,000	159 m
18 Henry St Mews, St Alphonsus St, Limerick	May 2026	€310,000	179 m
4 Ocurry Place, Limerick, Limerick	Feb 2025	€216,000	186 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 received4 June 2020
Further information requested28 July 2020
Further information received14 December 2020
Decision due29 April 2021
Decision issued28 April 2021
Grant issued2 June 2021
Permission expiry1 June 2026

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