Up to 2,000 construction jobs are to be created next year by Real Estate Opportunities (REO), the listed property vehicle majority owned by Treasury Holdings, after objections to its €800m mixed-use development in Ballymun were dropped.
The scheme, known as Spring Cross, is to be developed in phases on a 15-acre site close to Ikea, the M50 and Dublin Airport and REO expects it to support 8,500 direct and indirect jobs when it is completed.
The Railway Procurement Agency and rival developer Brian O'Farrell's Northside shopping centre had initially objected to the granting of planning permission but the appeals have since been dropped.
Treasury Holdings director of development Niall Kavanagh said he expects the development to cost up to €400m to construct and that it will be done in nine or 10 phases with the shopping centre and leisure blocks developed first. Tesco anchors the shopping centre currently on the site.
Construction will start after pre-lets have been agreed but Kavanagh is hopeful of being on site by the end of next year. A metro north station will be built in the basement of the centre, which should ensure strong footfall for retailers based there. REO is in advanced negotiations with a large international cinema operator interested in signing up for the leisure element of the scheme.
"Regeneration is where it's at," said Kavanagh, adding that the company was hopeful of attracting people who had spent part of the day at Ikea to the centre.
Sunday Tribune
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Monday, 21 September 2009
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Goodman's oil plan rejected
Beef baron Larry Goodman's plans for a waste facility for used cooking oils at his meat processing plant in Ballymun in north Dublin has been rejected by Fingal County Council.
The businessman, through his companies AIBP and Agri Energy, sought planning permission to change part of the processing plant from meat to a waste water facility for the collection, storage and distribution of used cooking oils.
He also sought permission for storage tanks for the oil at the 16.5-acre site next to Dublin airport.
However, the local authority found that "development of the kind proposed would be premature pending the adoption and publication" of a local area plan.
It also found that AIBP had "not adequately demonstrated that the proposed development complies" with the zoning objective of the area.
"On this basis, it is considered that the development would materially contravene the land use zoning objective and would set an undesirable precedent for similar inappropriate development in the area and as such would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area," it said.
AIBP had said there is a "significant demand" for collection of used cooking oil as it "causes significant problems with the foul effluent drainage network in conurbations as it solidifies in pipes and causes numerous pumping and blockages of drains".
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The businessman, through his companies AIBP and Agri Energy, sought planning permission to change part of the processing plant from meat to a waste water facility for the collection, storage and distribution of used cooking oils.
He also sought permission for storage tanks for the oil at the 16.5-acre site next to Dublin airport.
However, the local authority found that "development of the kind proposed would be premature pending the adoption and publication" of a local area plan.
It also found that AIBP had "not adequately demonstrated that the proposed development complies" with the zoning objective of the area.
"On this basis, it is considered that the development would materially contravene the land use zoning objective and would set an undesirable precedent for similar inappropriate development in the area and as such would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area," it said.
AIBP had said there is a "significant demand" for collection of used cooking oil as it "causes significant problems with the foul effluent drainage network in conurbations as it solidifies in pipes and causes numerous pumping and blockages of drains".
Sunday Tribune
www.buckplanning.ie
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