Land parcel 4455994

Area

31,889 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres)

Buildings

36 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 12,711 m².

Zoning

R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
G1 Recreation and Amenity (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
S3 Community Culture and Institutional (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

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission for development which consists of: 1. Relocate exit door to escape stairwell and extend children’s play area. 2. Provide tarmac finish to external escape route and new paved assembly area. 3. Provide planters to external areas & landscaping to green area. 4. Provide mesh fencing / block wall to site boundaries and new gate/ vehicular access. 5. Construct bin storage unit & construct new ramp to main entrance. 6. Provide new set down area adjacent to main entrance. 7. Provide surface water drainage/ soakaway and associated site works

  Permission · Galway City Council, 2660084

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for LRD development which consists of; A proposed Large-Scale Residential Development (LRD) comprising amendments to a permitted Strategic Housing Development (SHD) scheme of 240 no. student accommodation bedspaces and a café (ABP-313286-22 refers). The amendments to the permitted development will consist of: (1) Reduction in the ground floor area from 1,645m2 to 1578m2 (67m2 reduction) by setting back the southern curtain walling to facilitate services diversion in the south-west corner of the building. (2) Internal layout changes at ground floor level including the omission of the café use. (3) Reduction in the floor to floor heights on upper floors, resulting in an overall building height reduction of approximately 1 metre. (4) Adjustments to stair/lift core layouts to comply with fire safety requirements with minor internal layout adjustments in floors 1 – 6. (5) Elevational changes including fenestration alterations, replacement of aluminium spandrels with brick spandrels and addition of transom lines in curtain walling. (6) Omission of telecommunication masts at roof level, replacement of rainscreen cladding with brick finish and inclusion of solar panels. (7) Minor modification to landscaping and parking spaces related to fire tender and vehicle tracking. (8) All site development works above and below ground necessary to facilitate the proposed development. This application for the proposed amendments to the consented Strategic Housing Development (ABP 313286-22 refers), is a Large-scale Residential Development as defined under Section 2 of the Planning & Development Act 2000, as amended.

  Permission · Galway City Council, 2460365

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of refurbishment works principally comprising: the upgrade of the southern elevation and a portion of the western elevation including the replacement of the existing cladding and the provision of new/replacement signage and landscaping works in the ancillary carpark

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 22133

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission for extension to meeting rooms/office building attached to Sacred Heart Church and to incorporate Funeral Parlour, and adjustment of car parking spaces accordingly and all associated services

  Permission · Galway City Council, 18192

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 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_454 (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.