Land parcel 1981485

Area

3,556 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
C2.1 Enterprise Light Industry and Commercial (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of 1. a mixed-use scheme with an overall gross floor area (GFA) of approximately 97,936 sqm. on a site of circa 6.81 hectares. The development is arranged across 13 no. development blocks (A-M) ranging in height from 2 to 8 storeys with associated ground level and basement level car parking. 2. Demolition of an existing security kiosk, and demolition and relocation of an existing substation. 3. Construction of 4 no. blocks of commercial offices ranging in height from 4 to 5 storeys over ground floor level (GFA c. 25,527 sqm). 4. A hotel development (8 floors over ground floor level) comprising 150 no. hotel bedrooms, 72 no. apart hotel units, conference facilities and restaurant/bar areas (GFA c. 12,375 sqm.) A leisure centre and spa with indoor swimming pool and gym, changing rooms, treatment rooms, studios, ancillary spaces (GFA c. 2,479 sqm.). 5. 9 no. blocks of residential units ranging in height from 2 to 8 storeys over ground floor level totalling 309 no. apartments including 118 no. 1-bed apartments, 143 no. 2-bed apartments, 42 no. 3-bed apartments, 3 no. 4-bed apartments and 3 no. studio apartments. Provision of residential amenity facilities with Blocks B, G, H, J, K, L, M such as laundry rooms, gym, co-working space, bookable spaces and workshop/bike repair areas (GFA c. 28,960 sqm). 6. Provision of a creche facility ( c. 429sqm including an outdoor secure play area (c. 275.1 sqm). 7. Provision of a cultural centre including community use facilities such as a community café, multi-functional ground floor exhibition space, workshop rooms, party rooms, meeting spaces, residents lounge area, a concierge and parcel collection point, and ancillary kitchen and toilet facilities (GFA c. 1,195 sqm.) 8. Provision of ground floor retail units (GRA c. 1,080 sqm.) 9. Provision of café and restaurant uses (GFA c. 1,234 sqm.) 10. Provision of 788 no. car parking spaces, 63 no. motorcycle spaces, and 1,116 no. bicycle parking spaces. 11. Upgrade to the existing N83 access junction to the site. 12. Provision of a footpath connectivity link to the south west of the site along the N83. 13. Provision of a temporary access for existing businesses into Galway City North Business Park during the construction phase. Please refer to file for full development description

  Permission · Galway City Council, 20261

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_496 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.