Land parcel 2604270

Area

2,489 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,252 m².

Zoning

R3 Z14: Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas (SDRAs) (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 30 Jan 2019Grant retention permissio

  RETENTION: Retention permission for development at this site at Europcar/GoCar Depot, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1. The development will consist of: The retention for a temporary period of the existing change of use of vacant land to Europcar/GoCar vehicle rental depot and works consisting of: 1) Pre-fabricated car rental sales office building; pre-fabricated security cabin, pre-fabricated car maintenance garage, car wash machine; 2) External surface car parking/car pick-up and drop-off area; 3) Boundary palisade fencing & entrance/egress gateway to Park Lane; and 4) All ancillary site works and services. This application relates to a development within the North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme area.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, DSDZ2146/19

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

• CIÉ Goods Depot, railway station, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached symmetrical thirteen-bay two-storey brick and stone former North Wall Railway Station, built c.1900, with central three-bay block flanked by matching taller five bay wings and single-storey curved wing to east. Partially vacant, currently in mixed commercial use. Hipped painted slate roofs to all three blocks with several tall profiled red brick chimneystacks having granite copings. Roofs behind granite ashlar parapet walls with deep moulded cornice, granite frieze and architrave below. Square-profile cast-iron downpipes throughout. Red brick walls laid in English bond with moulded granite plinth course, rusticated granite quoins to all corners and breakfronts and moulded granite platband and ground floor impost moulding spanning entire building. Square-headed window openings to first floor with granite architrave surrounds, granite sills and single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged brick segmental-headed window openings to ground floor with one-over-two timber sash windows and tripartite timber casement windows with overlights. Both five-bay wings have single-bay breakfront to either end with larger segmental-headed openings to ground floor having granite architrave surrounds and stepped granite keystones. Opening to west has replacement timber glazed doors. Central block is surmounted by elaborate granite parapet block (possibly built for clock faces), pedimented to all four sides with two pairs of inverted scrolled console brackets. Slender pitched roof to front with hipped section behind having glazed lantern. Roof hidden behind granite ashlar parapet wall, set below that to flanking wings with splayed coping and plain granite frieze and architrave. Central first floor window forms base to parapet block forming slight breakfront flush to slightly advanced ground floor with moulded granite course over ground floor level, stepped to central first floor bay. Tripartite window openings to either side at first floor level formed in granite ashlar, slightly advanced to parapet wall. Five segmental-headed openings to ground floor framed by brick and granite Doric piers with bipartite single-pane timber sash windows and overlights. Curved east wing has three openings detailed as per breakfront bays to flanking wings, built up in brick with timber sash windows and double-leaf timber door. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings to rear elevation at first floor level with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and iron grilles. Segmental-headed to ground floor with tripartite timber sash windows and iron grilles. Interior largely intact with exposed timber truss roofs, plastered walls with some original glazed screens and some boarded and tiled floors.

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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3233 (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.

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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.