GrantedChange of useDecided 29 January 2026

The Former Meridian Building, Whitestown Drive, Tallaght Business Park, Dublin 24, D24 HH50

Partial change of use and extensions to a commercial building for warehouse, manufacturing, and office use.

SD25A/0143W · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 13 June 2025

Reference: SD25A/0143W
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 13 June 2025

Summary

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The proposal includes a partial change of use of the ground floor from offices to warehouse, logistics, and light industrial food processing. It also includes a rear extension, a two-storey lift shaft extension, and additional first-floor office space.

Change of usecommercialindustrialofficeextension

Storeys: 2
Floor area: 4,702 m²

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Official record

Development description

Part change of use at ground floor level from office use to warehouse / logistics use (with a gross floor area (gfa) of 944 sq. M) and light industry- manufacturing / food processing use (gfa of 1,860 sq. M), including ancillary staff welfare facilities, with the remainder of the existing floorspace (gfa of 712 sq. M) unchanged from the existing office use
Proposed extension to the rear / south elevation of the existing building (with a gfa of 861 sq. M), comprising one level with a height of 7.47m, to provide an additional ancillary store to the proposed light industry- manufacturing / food processing use
Proposed two storey extension (gfa of 13 sq. M) to the north elevation to provide an additional lift shaft and proposed extensions to the northern and west elevations to provide additional lobby / entrance areas (12 sq. M)
Provision of additional floorspace at first floor level (within the existing building envelope) to provide an additional 1,040 sq. M (gfa) of office floor space, ancillary staff welfare facilities, ancillary innovation and testing rooms, storage and plant rooms, and an additional 163 sq. M (gfa) of a mezzanine storage area
Associated internal reconfigurations and installation of new internal partition walls, and associated alterations to the elevations including materials and fenestration arrangement, additional loading bays and roller shutter doors
Provision of associated signage including an internally illuminated sign adjacent to the security entrance gate, a directional sign, internally illuminated signage over the entrance doors to the unit and 2 no. Signs over entrance canopies
Reconfigured car parking to provide 72 no. Car parking spaces (a reduction from 134), widening of the internal service road, provision of new pedestrian footpaths from the estate road, internal segregated pedestrian footpaths and crossing, and the provision of a security fence and gate
The proposal includes dock leveller, landscaping, bicycle store, external store with wc/garden store/bin store, plant compound, pv panels to new rear extension roof and bicycle store roof, surface water drainage, including detention pond and swale, and all associated works. The proposed development results in an overall increase of 2,089 sq. M in the total gfa of the unit from 3,516 sq. M to 5,605 sq. M, comprising office, warehouse / logistics, light industry manufacturing / food processing uses, and ancillary staff welfare facilities, innovation and testing rooms, storage and plant rooms

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

EESI

“To provide for enterprise and employment related uses”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

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
14 Mount Seskin Court, Killinarden, Dublin 24	Nov 2025	€180,000	137 m
30 Cushlawn Park, Killinarden, Tallaght Dublin 24	Mar 2026	€300,000	237 m
35 Killinarden Est, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Mar 2026	€360,000	334 m
57 Cushlawn Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Nov 2025	€330,000	358 m
149 Donomore Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24not full market price	Dec 2025	€180,000	401 m
79 Cushlawn Park, Killinarden, Tallaght Dublin 24not full market price	Jun 2026	€318,000	405 m
358 Cushlawn Park, Dublin 24, D24 Wk10not full market price	Jun 2026	€120,000	493 m
38 Knockmore Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24	Feb 2025	€360,000	500 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 received13 June 2025
Decision due29 January 2026
Decision issued29 January 2026
Permission expiry9 March 2031

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