Land parcel 3656790

Area

17,272 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres)

Buildings

28 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 9,463 m².

Zoning

R2 Z2: Residential Neighbourhoods (Conservation Areas) (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 26 Mar 2026Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: We, Botanic Business Centre Unlimited Company, intend to apply for permission for development at Unit 3 Botanic Business Centre, Botanic Road, Dublin 9, D09 TV05 (bounded by Iona Crescent to the east; and Former John Player’s Factory to the west [Protected Structure]). The development will consist of the proposed change of use of this single storey light industrial/ warehouse unit with ancillary offices at ground floor level and stores at mezzanine level to a car storage facility with ancillary offices at ground floor level (the stair access to the existing mezzanine level will be closed/blocked off); internal modifications to facilitate this use including upgrade works to provide additional office rooms, meeting room, and staff facilities including kitchen, showers, locker and changing rooms; proposed widening and associated upgrade works to the unit’s existing external northwestern access ramp; 9 no. proposed external bicycle spaces to the immediate south of the unit (i.e. 4 no. covered Sheffield stands and 1 no. cargo bicycle space); reconfiguration of the existing southeastern car parking spaces to include 1 no. EV charging space and widening of 1 no. existing car parking space to provide 1 no. EV charging/accessibility space; and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development. Planning permission for this change of use is being sought for a temporary period of 7 years.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1705/26

• 20 Mar 2026Application declared invalid

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: We, Botanic Business Centre Unlimited Company, intend to apply for permission for development at Unit 3 Botanic Business Centre, Botanic Road, Dublin 9, D09 TV05 (bounded by Iona Crescent to the east; and Former John Player's Factory to the west [Protected Structure]). The development will consist of the proposed change of use of this single storey light industrial/warehouse unit with ancillary offices at ground floor level and stores at mezzanine level to a car storage facility with ancillary offices at ground floor level (the stair access to the existing mezzanine level will be closed/blocked off); internal modifications to facilitate this use including upgrade works to provide additional office rooms, meeting room, and staff facilities including kitchen, showers, locker and changing rooms; proposed widening and associated upgrade works to the unit's existing external northwestern access ramp; 9 no. proposed external bicycle spaces to the immediate south of the unit (i.e. 4 no. covered Sheffield stands and 1 no. cargo bicycle space); reconfiguration of the existing southeastern car parking spaces to include 1 no. EV charging space and widening of 1 no. existing car parking space to provide 1 no. EV charging/accessibility space; and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development. Planning permission for this change of use is being sought for a temporary period of 7 years.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1660/26

• 31 May 2021Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: planning permission for change of use and associated development works to a mobility transport training centre. The proposed works will require modification to the existing entrance forecourt and the front facade. The proposed works include the provision of a new access ramp and steps, new internal entrance to the former printworks unit, revised car-park layout, paving, minibus set-down and shelter. Modifications to the former printworks hall to provide; mobility tranport training area, sanitary and welfare accommodation and means of escape all in accordance with building regulation requirements together with all necessary internal works and external site works. The site contains additional protected structures as follows; the railings, gates, piers and plinth walls and brick chimney stack to the rear of the site for which there are no works proposed.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2849/21

• 26 Jul 2019Refuse permission

  Permission for development at a site of 2,632 sq.m (0.26 ha) within an overall site of c.20,200 sq m (c.2.02 ha). The overall site comprises the southern part of the former Printworks/Smurfit Site at Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. The applications site is located at the eastern portion of the overall site (adjoining the rear of properties on Iona Park). The proposed development consists of an amendment to the permitted residential development (ABP Ref. PL29N.246124; DCC Reg. Ref.: 3665/15 (as amended by DCC Reg. Ref. 4267/17, 2133/18 and 4306/18) which is currently under construction. DCC Reg. Ref. 4306/18 which also pertains to the subject site is not affected by the current application. The proposed amendments comprise the change of permitted house Nos. 25-35 inclusive from 11 No. three storey (five bed) terrace units to 28 No. three storey apartments (4 No. one bed and 24 No. two bed units); a nominal increase in the overall height of the units (the ridge level will remain unchanged as the additional height is facilitated by a reduction ground floor level by 340mm); the slight repositioning of the blocks within the permitted footprint; associated minor amendments to elevations, internal layouts, boundary treatments, landscaping and curtilages. The development will reduce the gross floor area of the scheme by 67 sq m. The development will include the provision of 788 sq m of communal open space (in lieu of the previously permitted private open space to dwellings); an increase in quantum of car parking spaces from 11 No. to 20 No. spaces; the provision of 28 No. cycle spaces; winter gardens facing west; ground level terraces facing east; bin storage; and all other associated site development works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3609/19

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

• Gates/railings/walls, 1920–1923 · Regional interest
  Description

  Granite and steel boundary, erected 1923, to front (west) of former John Player & Co. tobacco factory. Symmetrical layout, comprising decorative steel railings with saltire crosses to top rail and equally spaced steel cage piers with hooped frieze and ball finials to corners, set on chamfered ashlar granite plinth wall; divided into sections by square ashlar granite piers with band-rusticated quoins and corniced caps. Paired vehicular steel gates to north and south ends with saltire panels, saltire top rail and central hoop, flanked to outer ends by matching pedestrian gates bearing maker's mark 'J & C McGloughlin Ltd. Dublin', supported on large square-plan piers, each having moulded plinth, band rustication, moulded stringcourse, plain frieze and corniced caps, supporting tapered steel lamp standards with geometric framework (lamps missing). Tarmac vehicular access with granite kerbing to concrete footpath, and with tarmac carparking within.

• Factory, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached multiple-bay single-storey neo-Classical former tobacco factory administration block, built 1923. with dormer attic. Now vacant. Symmetrical front and end facades, principal facade having shallow breakfront with pedimented entrance, and end bays projecting forwards; substantial industrial blocks attached to rear. Mansard Westmoreland slate roof behind granite blocking course, stepped to centre over entrance bay; leaded hips and timber dormers with slated cheeks and having segmental-profile roofs to end bays and to flanking bays of three-bay units to recessed part of facade, with gabled roofs to middle dormers. Cast-iron downpipes. Ashlar granite walling over plinth with plain frieze and moulded cornice, projecting piers to corners having shallow band-rustication; Portland stone to entrance bay. Square-headed windows with moulded architraves and stepped keystones, projecting moulded granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Shouldered segmental-headed entrance opening, flanked by band-rusticated Portland stone piers supporting open-bed segmental pediment having carved fronds, keystone and cartouche bearing monogram JPS to tympanum; recessed double-leaf stained timber door, each leaf having three raised and fielded panels and side panels and multiple-pane overlight. Tapered industrial chimney located to southeast, built of red brick laid in English garden wall bond and having corbelled neck and nosed lip of engineering brick. carpark to front of building; site bounded by original boundary walls and railings.

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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3205 (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.