12, Ballymount Road Lower, Dublin 12
Expansion of a bus depot in Dublin 12 to provide 221 bus parking spaces and EV charging infrastructure.
SD21A/0213 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 17 December 2021
- Reference
- SD21A/0213
- Authority
- South Dublin County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- Permission
- Received
- 17 December 2021
- Floor area
- 3812 m²
Summary
AI-generatedThe development involves extending the existing depot to accommodate 221 bus spaces, including 45 electric bus spaces, and 33 car spaces. It also includes installing EV charging units, a new vehicular entrance on Ballymount Avenue, and minor building alterations.
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Official record
Development description
Extension of the existing depot to provide additional bus parking facilities comprising a total of 221 bus spaces (including 45 electric bus parking spaces), 33 car parking spaces (including 15 electric car parking spaces), 5 motorcycle parking spaces and 30 bicycle parking spaces; revisions to the layout and configuration of the existing bus and car parking areas; the installation of electric vehicle charging units and associated infrastructure; new vehicular entrance/egress arrangement (including barrier and ramp) to ballymount avenue on the north-eastern site boundary; the provision of 4 pedestrian entrances located on the south-eastern, south-western and north-eastern site boundaries; internal roads and pedestrian pathways; minor elevational amendments to the existing transport depot building (relocation and addition of roller shutter doors and relocation of signage); hard and soft landscaping; boundary treatments; changes in level; lighting; surface water drainage; piped infrastructure and ducting, and all associated site excavation and development works above and below ground. (the development will also include the underground diversion of the existing esb power line traversing the south-eastern corner of the site. )
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“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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Timeline
- Application received17 December 2021
- Further information requested27 September 2021
- Further information received17 December 2021
- Decision due24 January 2022
- Decision issued24 January 2022
- Grant issued11 March 2022
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