GrantedCommercialDecided 29 May 2025

Eir Telephone Exchange, Patrick Street, Drogheda Co Louth

Part of the Eir Telephone Exchange in Drogheda is proposed to be converted into a data centre.

24226 · Louth County Council · Lodged 19 December 2024

Reference: 24226
Authority: Louth County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 19 December 2024

Summary

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The application seeks a change of use for 2,413 sqm of the building to data storage and ancillary uses. It includes internal reconfiguration, external alterations, the installation of 17-metre flue stacks, a new plant yard compound, and a reduction in car parking spaces.

Commercialdata centretelecomsretrofit

Floor area: 2,413 m²

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Official record

Development description

Permission for a change of use of part of the building (2413sqm) from existing telephone exchange use to complementary information, communications and telecoms data centre use; internal reconfiguration of the existing building to facilitate data storage floorspace and ancillary uses and associated alterations to the north, east, south and west elevations, including modifications to door and window positions and sizes, removal and relocation of openings, the incorporation of louvers on existing, enlarged and new openings and the repositioning of the loading bay ramp on eastern elevation; provision of 2 no. Flue stacks measuring c. 17m in height above ground level (southern elevation); replacement of an existing flue stack of c. 17m height above ground level centrally located on the southern elevation with a flue stack of the same height and a diameter of 2.3m; provision of an additional enclosed plant yard compound of 208sqm to accommodate condenser chillers, resulting in the loss of 10 no. Car parking spaces (a reduction in total number of car parking spaces from 36 no. To 26 no. Spaces); provision of a new external single storey storage shed (27 sqm); replacement of existing palisade fence with acoustic screening, increasing the overall fence height from 2.4m to 4.0m, and provision of a roof structure to cover the existing (currently under construction under reg. Ref. 22/240) and proposed external plant yard compounds; provision of 5 no. Additional enclosed biodiesel (hvo) standby generators; provision of fenced plant yard compound (325sqm) comprising of 6 no. Backup battery modules (it is noted that this element of the proposed development is also subject to a concurrent application to louth county council under lcc reg. Ref. 24/214); extension of the existing plant area at roof level by 254sqm, to accommodate generator radiators, and the provision of an associated walkway and guardrail to provide access to and enclose the proposed plant area; provision of 6 no. Bicycle parking spaces; provision of 2 no. Fuel tanks at ground level and overhead pipe bridge connecting to the existing building; provision of a water tank at ground floor level contiguous to the western elevations; the removal and replacement of a door on the eastern elevation and a new door replacing an existing window on the northern elevation; and all associated site and development works and landscaping, all on site of c. 0.633 ha

Land-use zoning

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General EmploymentSI

“To provide for general enterprise and employment generating activities.”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
1 Patrick St, Drogheda, Louth	Jul 2025	€265,000	86 m
14 Patrick Street, Drogheda, Co Louth	Jun 2025	€295,000	96 m
Grenville, 2 Bolton Square, Drogheda	Nov 2025	€219,000	136 m
9 St Peter's Place, Drogheda, Co Louth	Jul 2025	€192,000	147 m
Bamore Drogheda, Drogheda, Meath	May 2025	€40,000	147 m
Block A Apt 303, An Tsean Mharagh, Drogheda	Apr 2025	€175,000	147 m
19 Lollypop Alley, Drogheda, Louth	Feb 2025	€222,500	147 m
Wyanstown, Togher, Drogheda	Jan 2025	€240,000	147 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 received19 December 2024
Further information requested11 February 2025
Further information received15 May 2025
Decision due11 June 2025
Decision issued29 May 2025
Grant issued30 June 2025
Permission expiry29 June 2030

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