GrantedCommercialDecided 2 October 2008

Former Gallagher's site at junction of Airton Road and Greenhills Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24.

Demolition of factory buildings to construct three retail warehouse units, two car showrooms, and a garden centre.

SD07A/0990 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 8 August 2008

Reference: SD07A/0990
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 8 August 2008
Floor area: 9722 m²

Summary

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This major development proposes the demolition of three factory, warehouse, and office buildings. In their place, the applicant plans to build three retail warehouse units with an external garden centre, two car showrooms, a security office, and 229 parking spaces.

Commercialretailshowroomdemolitionredevelopment

Storey: 1

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Development description

(a) demolition of 3 existing buildings consisting of a single storey factory/warehouse unit, a single storey office block with canteen and a two-storey office block; (b) construction of block a consisting of three single storey retail warehouse units and an external garden centre - gross internal floor areas are as follows: unit 1
3354sq. M. , unit 2
1543sq. M. , unit 3
1525sq. M. And garden centre
952sq. M; (c) construction of block consisting of two single storey car showrooms, security office and bin store: gross internal floor areas are as follows: showroom 1
1316sq. M. , showroom 2
934sq. M. , security office
26sq. M. , bin store
40sq. M; (d) construction of a separate esb sub-station and switch room
32sq. M; (e) construction of car parking providing 229 public parking spaces (including 11 disabled spaces); (f) construction of external car showroom display parking areas
877sq. M; (g) the moving/de-canting of an existing vehicular entrance on airton road and the construction of an additional vehicular entrance on greenhills road; (h) the construction of 2 free-standing totem signs and associated building signage; (i) associated landscaping and low level stone wall to the boundaries fronting airton road and greenhills road. This applicaiton is accompanied by an environmental impact statement. Significant additional information: changes consisting of the following
(a) the re-design and re-location of car showroom 1 consisting of an increase in internal floor area from 1316sq. M. To 4547sq. M. And change from a single storey building to a two storey building including ground floor workshop area and car display and first floor compound area and car display; (b) the re-design and relocation of car showroom 2 consisting of an increase in internal floor area from 934sq. M. To 3402sq. M. And change from a single storey building to a two to three storey building including ground floor workshop area and car display, first floor compound area and car display and second floor compound area; (c) the change of use and re-location of retail warehouses 2 and 3 to car showrooms 3 and 4 with an increase in internal floor area from 3068sq. M. (combined) to 3597sq. M. (combined) and change from a single storey building to a two storey building including ground floor workshop area and car display and first floor compound area and car display; (d) the change of use and re-location of retail warehouse 1 and garden centre to car showroom 5 with an increase in internal floor area from 4306sq. M. (combined retail warehouse and garden centre) to 4633sq. M. And change from a single storey building to a two storey building including ground floor workshop area and car display and first floor compound area and car display; (e) the re-location of the northern access junction on approx. 16metres west along airton road; (f) the re-location of the in-only eastern access road approx. 30metres to the south along greenhills road including the removal of the stone wall along greenhills road; (g) the omission of the two free standing totem signs previously approved; (h) the addition of protective paladin fencing to the poplar trees on the southern boundary; (i) the re-location of the esb substation and bin storage area which is now proposed as external; (j) changes to the public and display parking provisions within the site; (k) changes to the proposed landscaping provisions; (l) the omission of the security office. The proposed gross internal floor area has increased from 9722sq. M. To 16211sq. M. (incl. Sub-station). Public car parking provisions have reduced from 229 spaces to 168 spaces with an additional 123 external display parking spaces proposed

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

REGENRE

“To facilitate enterprise and/or residential led regeneration”

National zoning type: Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site

Objective set by the South Dublin County 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
74 Bancroft Ave, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Nov 2025	€540,000	350 m
47 Bancroft Ave, Tallaght, Dublin	Mar 2026	€525,000	385 m
72 Bancroft Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Oct 2025	€590,000	421 m
7 Bancroft Downs, Tallaght, Dublin 24	May 2026	€465,000	423 m
36 Bancroft Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Aug 2025	€530,000	460 m
44 Bancroft Rd, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Jan 2025	€531,000	491 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

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Application received8 August 2008
Further information requested11 February 2008
Further information received8 August 2008
Decision due2 October 2008
Decision issued2 October 2008
Grant issued11 November 2008

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