Land parcel 2369544

Area

75,336 m² (7.53 ha, 18.62 acres)

Buildings

17 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 43,958 m².

Zoning

C2.1 Z6: Employment/Enterprise (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
G3 Z11: Waterways Protection (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 1 Jun 2023Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: PERMISSION: Permission to erect 9,724.00 m2m2 or 1.77MV of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the buildings in our factory, in the complex called Cadbury's chocolate factory, with all associates site works at Mondelez Europe Services GMBH, Old Malahide Road, Malahide Road, Dublin 5, D05 TOH4. That currently operates under an Industrial Emissions (IE) License (P0809-01). Exist a protecting structure on the owner's land (Ref. No: 4861. Volume 4 of the 2022-2028 Dublin City Plan) and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) consider the Cadbury's chocolate factory to be a 'Regionally' important complex of architectural, social, and technical interest, (NIAH Ref: 50130221), however both records are not affecting the area of the solar panel's installation.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3878/23

• 30 Mar 2023Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission to erect 7,347.00 m2 or 1.33MV of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the buildings in our factory, in the complex called Cadbury's chocolate factory, with all associates site works at Mondelez Europe Services GMBH , Old Malahide Road, Malahide Road, Dublin 5, D05 T0H4. That currently operates under an industrial emissions (IE) License (P0809-01). Exist a protecting structure on the owner's land (Ref. No. 4861. volume 4 of the 2022-2028 Dublin City Plan) and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) consider the Cadbury's chocolate factory to be a 'regionally' important complex of architectural social and technical interest, (NIAH Ref: 50130221), however both records are not affecting the area of the solar panels installation.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3477/23

• 15 Jul 2022Refuse permission

  The development will consist of: (i) The demolition of an existing 1950's, 4 no. storey concrete framed vacant office building located adjacent to the southern boundary of the subject site, including associated outbuildings, walls and foothpaths and; (ii) amendments to the existing car parking area located to the north of the office building proposed for demolition, to provide for a modified car parking area and a HGV/truck parking and marshalling area. More specifically, the development will include the following: (a) a modified car parking area for staff parking including 55 no. parking spaces (including 2 no. accessible parking spaces and 6 no. electric vehicle charging spaces); and b) a parking area for HGV's and trucks comprising 15 no. parking bays, together with space for loading and unloading of vehicles and a 'Pit' Type Weigh Bridge flush with the paved surface. The proposed development will also include all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the proposed development including hard and soft landscaping, a new bicycle shelter, foothpaths, EV car charging stations and the removal of existing gates and the provision new electric sliding gates to the HGV/truck parking area.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4485/22

• 4 Jun 2021Refuse permission

  Planning permission for the development will consist of the demolition of an existing 68m x 16m x 18m high 4 no. storey concrete framed unoccupied office building and associated outbuildings, walls & footpaths and the construction of a replacement 62m x 20m staff car parking area and associated works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2905/21

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• DU015-074 Mound
  Description

  Comprises a round -topped mound beside a stream in a low-lying location on the grounds of Cadbury's factory. The top has been planted with trees (diam. 19.20m, H 4.80m). (Morris 1939, 189; Dillon Cosgrave 1977, 110). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Factory, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of buildings, built 1956-8 for Cadbury's chocolate factory, comprising detached E-plan multiple-bay single-storey factory building dated 1956 and having various accretions, and two detached multiple-bay four-storey administration blocks to south. Factory has bituminous flat roofs to principal volumes, single-pitched roofs to returns, concealed gutters and cast-iron downpipes; red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, with plinth course and concrete coping, having extruded header detail to southwest elevation and various wall sections with roughcast cement render, metal or timber sheeting; square-headed window openings in painted projecting cast-concrete surrounds, some original fixed metal-framed windows, but generally replacement uPVC windows; square-headed north lights to roofs of returns; square-headed doorway to southwest elevation set within inwardly-tapering projecting cast-concrete surround with render infill, continuous high-level window openings and replacement automatic door with sidelights and transom; secondary doorway to southeast elevation set within simple cast-concrete porch with replacement doors and lights. Administration blocks, built 1958, are flat-roofed, with various extensions; concrete-frame construction with glazed curtain walling and brown brick cladding with concrete coping to parapets, and mosaic-tiled aprons; windows have aluminium frames and concrete sills. Buildings set within grounds having lawns and trees, with tarmac roads and cast-iron bollards with chains; carpark to northeast. Vehicular entrance to east boundary with gate lodge having flat roof and brown brick walls, and gate piers with concrete coping and wrought-iron gates flanked by brick dwarf walls with concrete copings and wrought-iron railings continuing around site boundary.

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 20 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3253 (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.