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SD09A/0267

Grant Permission & Grant Retention

Dublin - South Dublin County Council

Proposed Development

Retention of the existing 15-meter high telecommunications support structure carrying antennas & link dishes together with associated equipment container & security fence with access over existing access track.

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Application Timeline

  1. Further information requested

    19 Aug 2009

  2. Application received

    6 May 2010

  3. Further information received

    6 May 2010

  4. Decision: Grant Permission & Grant Retention

    1 Jun 2010

  5. Decision due

    2 Jun 2010

  6. Grant issued

    13 Jul 2010

Application Details

Location
Ballybane, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
Applicant
N/A
Application Type
Permission and Retention
Planning Authority
South Dublin County Council
Site Area
220 ha

Timeline

Registration Date
6 May 2010
Status
Officer Allocation
Decision
Grant Permission & Grant Retention
Decision Date
1 June 2010
Grant Date
13 July 2010

Location

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SD04A/0489Grant Permission for Retention4 Nov 2004

To retain the existing permitted GSM base station installation (See Reg. Ref. S98A/0585) comprising: 15m high triangular lattice mast carrying 6.No.GSM antennas and 2. No. 0.6m diameter link dish/drum antenna, together with associated telecommunications equipment container, security fencing and access track.

Ballybane, Clondalkin, Dublin 22

119m
ED22/0001Declared Not Exempt25 Feb 2022

Entrance upgrade comprising: (1) 3 heavy duty barriers & controls with 3 new smaller traffic arms and 3 road blockers; (2) Upgrade includes removal of existing island and construction of a smaller central island in a new position and all ancillary works in relation to the upgrade.

Townlands of Aungierstown & Ballybane, lying at the entrance of the existing facility in, Newcastle, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.

130m
SD24A/0162WGranted24 Jun 2024

We, Vantage Data Centers DUB11 Ltd. are applying for permission for development at this site on lands to the south of the New Nangor Road (R134), Dublin 22; and on land within the townland of Ballybane within Profile Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. The development will consist of an amendment and modification of the permitted Gas Networks Ireland (GNI compound that was granted as part of, and under SDCC Planning Ref. SD21A/0241 that will include: - Replacement of the permitted vehicular access to the GNI compound from within the data centre campus to being directly off Legacy Drive that will include a modified internal access road; - New internal layout of the GNI compound that will include the replacement of the permitted boiler kiosk (42sqm), skid kiosk (89sqm) and analyser kiosk (3sqm); with a single storey boiler house kiosk (19.7sqm); single storey regulators / meters kiosk (36.8sqm); single storey electrical kiosk (14.6sqm); as well as all associated infrastructure and ancillary works; and - 3 no. floodlighting columns (each 8.537m in height) within the GNI compound that will be surrounded by a 3m high fence and vehicle gates.

Lands south of the New Nangor Road (R134), Profile Park, Dublin 22

154m
SD22A/0349Granted6 Sept 2022

Modifications to the existing main site entrance to comprise of minor realignment of the internal access road with adjusted road marking and roadside bollards; Removal of 3 existing security traffic arms; Installation of 3 new security traffic arms and installation of 3 underground lifting security road blockers together with associated communications and electrical services; Provision of 2 set-down only parking spaces and all associated site drainage and installation works.

Dublin Google Data Centre, Grange Castle Business Park South, 22, Baldonnel Road, Dublin 22

209m
SD26A/0121WGranted21 Jul 2026

Installation of a new culvert to convey the Baldonnell Stream. The proposed culvert will be an approximately 90m long concrete box culvert with overall internal dimensions of 1.1m wide by 1.7m high. And all associated works.

Grangecastle Motor Company site, at Profile Park, Ballybane, Dublin 22

218m
SD25A/0102WGranted30 Apr 2025

The proposed development comprises amendments to planning permission Reg. Ref.: SD21A/0241, as previously amended by Reg. Ref.: SD23A/0035, SD23A/0203, SD23A/0291 and SD24A/0162W. The proposed amendments consist of the following: The provision of a sprinkler tank to a height of c. 11m (c. 12.8m to top of maintenance ladder) with a diameter of c. 10.1m located to the north west of the overall site; The provision of a pumphouse to the east of the sprinkler tank comprising c. 73sq.m; Security fencing and associated above ground pipework; and All associated and ancillary works.

Profile Park (in the townland of Kilbride), Clondalkin, Dublin 22

244m
SD26A/0200WRegistered Application

Installation of a new external steel access platform to facilitate generator flue exhaust emissions testing; lighting; creation of a new door opening in the existing northern building façade to provide access to the platform, and all associated ancillary works; The development is for the purposes of an activity requiring an Industrial Emissions Licence granted by the Environmental Protection Agency (reference no. P1189-01).

Google Ireland Limited, Grange Castle Business Park South, Clondalkin, D22X602

247m
ABP-309146-21Granted21 Jan 2021

The proposed development primarily comprises the provision of two 110kV transmission lines and a 110kV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) substation compound along with associated and ancillary works and is described as follows: The proposed 110kV GIS Substation Compound is to be located on lands to the north-east of the two storey data centre facility and associated three storey office block that was permitted under SDCC Reg. Ref. SD18A/0134/An Bord Pleanála Ref. ABP-302813-18, and within an overall landholding bound to the north by the Grange Castle South Business Park access road; to the west by the Baldonnel Road and to the south by 3 residential properties and the Baldonnel Road; and to the east by the Google data centre facility within the Grange Castle South Business Park, Baldonnel, Dublin 22. The site of the proposed development has an area of c. 0.9163 hectares. The proposed 110kV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) Substation Compound includes the provision of a two storey GIS Substation building (with a gross floor area of 1,307.2sqm) (known as the Aungierstown Substation), two transformers, lighting and lightning masts, car parking, associated underground services and roads within a 2.6m high fenced compound and all associated construction and ancillary works. Two proposed underground single circuit 110kV transmission lines will connect the proposed Aungierstown 110kV GIS Substation to the existing 220kV / 110kV Castlebaggot Substation to the immediate north-east. The proposed transmission lines cover a distance of approximately 120m and 140m within the townlands of Ballybane, and Aungierstown and Ballybane. The development includes the connections to the two substations (existing and proposed), changes to landscaping permitted under SDCC Reg. Ref. SD18A/0134 / An Bord Pleanála Ref. ABP-302813-18 and all associated construction and ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared in respect of this application. The planning application and the Environmental Impact Assessment Report may be inspected free of charge or purchased on payment of a specified fee (which fee shall not exceed the reasonable cost of making such copy) during public opening hours for a period of seven weeks commencing on the 21st January 2021 at the following locations: The Offices of An Bord Pleanála, 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1. South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Town Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24. The application may also be viewed/downloaded on the following website: www.aungierstown-substation.com Submissions or observations may be made only to An Bord Pleanála ('the Board'), 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1 during the above-mentioned period of seven weeks relating to: the implications of the proposed development for proper planning and sustainable development, and the likely effects on the environment of the proposed development, and the likely significant effects of the proposed development on a European site, if carried out. Any submissions/observations must be accompanied by a fee of €50 (except for certain prescribed bodies) and must be received by the Board not later than 5.30p.m. on the 10th March 2021. Such submissions/observations must also include the following information: The name of the person making the submission or observation, the name of the person acting on his or her behalf, if any, and the address to which any correspondence relating to the application should be sent, The subject matter of the submission or observation, and The reasons, considerations and arguments on which the submission or observation is based in full. (Article 217 of the Planning & Development Regulations refers). Any submissions or observations which do not comply with the above requirements cannot be considered by the Board. The Board may at its absolute discretion hold an oral hearing on the application. (For further details see ‘A Guide to Public Participation in Strategic Infrastructure Development' on the Board’s website www.pleanala.ie). The Board may in respect of an application for permission/ approval decide to (a) (i) grant the permission/approval, or (ii) make such modifications to the proposed development as it specifies in its decision and grant permission/approval in respect of the proposed development as so modified, or (iii) grant permission/approval in respect of part of the proposed development (with or without specified modifications of it of the foregoing kind), and any of the above decisions may be subject to or without conditions, or (b) refuse to grant the permission/approval. Any enquiries relating to the application process should be directed to the Strategic Infrastructure Development Section of a Bord Pleanála (Tel. 01- 8588100). A person may question the validity of any such decision by the Board by way of an application for judicial review, under Order 84 of the Rules of the Superior Courts (S. I. No.15 of 1986, as amended), in accordance with section 50 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended. Practical information on the review mechanism can be accessed under the heading Information on cases / Weekly lists - Judicial review of planning decisions on the Board's website www.pleanala.ie or on the Citizens Information Service website www.citizensinformation.ie.

Grange Castle South Business Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22

250m
SD23A/0035Granted19 May 2023

Amendment and modification of SD21A/0241 including the replacement of the permitted 2 sprinkler tanks and pump room with a two storey battery energy storage system (435.56sq.m) over a single level basement that will contain a sprinkler system, water tanks and pump room that will serve the overall permitted development as granted under Ref. SD21A/0241; A single additional car parking space will be provided adjacent to the new building that will be accessed via permitted access road from Falcon Avenue within Profile Park that was granted under Ref. SD21A/0241; 2 new transformers to be located to the north of the permitted switch rooms; 1 life safety generator to be located adjacent to the permitted step up transformer compound within the site.

On lands to the south of the New Nagor Road, Dublin 22

250m
SD21A/0241Granted21 Mar 2022

Demolition of the abandoned single storey dwelling and associated outbuilding (206sqm); construction of 2 two storey data centers with plant at roof level of each facility and associated ancillary development which will have a gross floor area of 40,589sq.m consisting of 1 two storey data center (Building 11) which will be located to the south of the site and will have a gross floor area of 24,667sq.m. including 22 emergency generators located at ground floor level within a compound to the western side of the data center with associated flues that will be 22.3m in height; 1 two storey data center (Building 12) which will be located to the north of the site, and to the immediate north of Building 11 and will have a gross floor area of 12,915sq.m including 11 emergency generators located at ground floor level within a compound to the western side of the data center with associated flues that will be 22.3m in height; each of the two data centers will include data storage rooms, associated electrical and mechanical plant rooms, loading bays, maintenance and storage spaces, office administration areas, and plant including PV panels at roof level as well as a separate house generator for each facility which will provide emergency power to the admin and ancillary spaces; each generator will include a diesel tank and there will be a refuelling area to serve the proposed emergency generators; the overall height of each data center apart from the flues and plant at roof level is c. 14.23m above the finished floor level; the overall height of each data center apart from the flues and plant at roof level is c. 14.23m above the finished floor level; single storey step-up substation (38sq.m) as well as 2 single storey switch substations (121sq.m); AGI Gas Regulator compound that include 3 single storey buildings (134sq.m); construction of a gas powered generation plant in the form of a 13m high single storey building with a gross floor area of 2,714sq.m that will contain 10 gas generators with associated flues that will be 25m in height, and grouped in pairs and threes; the Gas Plant will be located to the west of Building 11; ancillary site development works, that will include reorientation of the Baldonnel Stream, biodiversity management initiatives, attenuation ponds and the installation and connection to the underground foul and storm water drainage network, and installation of utility ducts and cables, that will include the drilling and laying of ducts and cables under the internal road network within Profile Park; other ancillary site development works will include hard and soft landscaping, lighting, fencing, signage, services road, entrance gates, sprinkler tanks and pump room; a temporary gas powered generation plant within a fenced yard containing 21 generator units in containers, each with associated flues (each 25m high), 12 transformers and 10 containers of controls to be located to the west of, and associated with the first phase of Building 11, and will be required for a period of up to 2 years if connection to the national grid is delayed; this temporary plant will not be built if the connection to the national grid is in place prior to the operation of Building 11 at this site that includes an abandoned single storey residential property on the New Nangor Road (R134), Dublin 22; and on land within the townlands of Ballybane and Kilbride within Profile Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 on an overall site of 8.7 hectares.

In the townlands of Ballybane & Kilbride within Profile Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22

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