11 storey in Donnybrook!

try to link to Google Map of the site but it wouldn’t allow me – Anyway this is a fairly substantial site but another Dublin City garage bites the dust!

Ah! I was wondering when an application was going to be made on that site! Great site opposite the renewed Bective, with just crap on it at the moment (single storey light industrial shite)… That said 11 floors is far too greedy imo – permitting such a scheme would make Jim Tully’s decision to let thru the nearby Eglinton House look wise 😮
(see Destruction of Dublin).

11 floors is a greedy gambit that wont work; watch for a slew of objections to come in from places such as the adjacent Georgian facsimilae residential Eglinton Square – which is of course where a certain former city architect lives. Ah the irony 🙂

@hutton wrote:

Ah! I was wondering when an application was going to be made on that site! Great site opposite the renewed Bective, with just crap on it at the moment (single storey light industrial shite)… That said 11 floors is far too greedy imo – permitting such a scheme would make Jim Tully’s decision to let thru the nearby Eglinton House look wise 😮
(see Destruction of Dublin).

11 floors is a greedy gambit that wont work; watch for a slew of objections to come in from places such as the adjacent Georgian facsimilae residential Eglinton Square – which is of course where a certain former city architect lives. Ah the irony 🙂

Ah yes Eglinton House – the straw that broke the camel’s back and led to An Bord Pleanala’s establishment. I find your description of a garage and mechanics as “shite” quite amusing. If they go where will one feed one’s SUV and get it fixed after a cyclist dents it with his head? But it’s a fine site with good potential. As an aside has anything been lodged for the other Donnybrook site at the fire station where a 26 storey tower was proposed a few years ago? – that truly would have been one for the Dublin vista thread. The subject site of the current discussion is the triangle in the right foreground if i’m not mistaken

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=2451

There was originally plans for higher buildings on the petrol station site. Bryan Cullen’s involved with guy who owns garage and Myles O’Malley also rumoured to be involved.

As regards Denis O’Brien’s site, there were new plans for six-storeys which were turned down but may be in front of ABP

From Irish Times in Feb 2007.:

A triangular site with several motor services, including a Shell filling station, opposite the rugby grounds in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, is to be used for a high-rise development to include retail and restaurant facilities, apartments and offices.

Businessman John O’Sullivan, along with property developers Bryan Cullen of Jackson Properties and Myles O’Malley of O’Malley Construction, have assembled the key site which is bounded by Donnybrook Road, Brookville Road and Eglinton Road. It has an overall value of around €70 million.

The final part of the site, the Shell station, was bought recently by Cullen for €15 million.

Leading architects O’Mahony Pike are currently preparing plans for the site which will include a landmark building ranging in height from seven to 11 storeys.

It will have a total floor area of 28,195sq m (303,500sq ft) and two underground car-parking levels to accommodate about 200 cars.

A new pedestrian walkway from Donnybrook Road to Brookville Road will have shops on either side.

Overall there will be 3,370sq m (36,274sq ft) of retail space, about 100 apartments and 14,695sq m (158,176sq ft) of offices.

Part of the first floor of the block will be given over to a restaurant looking towards the rugby grounds at one side and Donnybrook tennis club on the other.

O’Sullivan, who has owned a large chunk of the site (including the old Ever Ready garage) since 1988, said the proposed development would address the shortage of shopping and dining facilities in Donnybrook which was badly in need of more commercial activity.

It was also planned to let the office space in suites of not more than 325sq m (3,500sq ft) to encourage smaller companies to move into the area.

The location of the triangular site at the entrance to the village gives the owners the opportunity to provide a landmark building to replace the present range of rundown facilities. The car valeting service on the site is to continue in business.

obviously it’s been scaled down since

It was only a matter of time. It’s not even light industrial but any sort of business which requires any sort of footprint is likely to be under severe presure given the current value of land in “prestige” areas like this. Dunno, I like a bit of variety in my suburbs; a mono-culture of cafes/restaurants, fancy foodhalls and offices bores me a bit. A few people working in greasy overalls adds a bit of character.

I also notice it looks like the triangle of land across the road next to the Dodder behind the wesley club house is being cleared. Looks like it’s being prepared for development.

On the subject of Eglington Rd., at the other end near the junction with Sandford Rd/Milltown Rd there’s a huge victorian house on a huge site which is semi-derelict. The garden is perfectly maintained, the gate is locked with a padlock but the windows are boarded up. It’s been like this for years. I wonder what’s going on there?

That house hasn’t been like that for years. It was wrecked in a fire on Good Friday last. Its the Jesuits’ HQ.

From SBP yesterday:
Developer Bryan Cullen and businessman John O’Sullivan have sought planning permission for a development on the site of the Shell filling station and Ever Ready Centre across the road from Leinster’s Donnybrook rugby ground in Dublin 4.

The plan is to demolish the existing structures at the site between Donnybrook and Brookvale Roads and construct a mixed-use office, retail and residential scheme in two blocks on the land.

Subject to planning, the first block is to be up to 11 storeys high and would comprise 7,670 square metres of offices and nearly 1,000 square metres of shops fronting onto Donnybrook Road.

The second block would be up to eight storeys overall and have 22 apartments, most of them two-bedroom units. There would also be 62 car parking spaces in the basement.

John O’Sullivan assembled the site along with Bryan Cullen of Jackson Properties and Myles O’Malley of O’Malley Construction, although O’Malley is not listed on the current planning application according to Dublin City Council.

Cullen bought the Shell station from Topaz for €15 million and various other parts of the site were assembled over the years, with most of O’Sullivan’s land owned by him since 1988.

The site also overlooks the 2.2-acre Donnybrook Tennis Club, which developer Sean Reilly tried to acquire last year in a swap deal for the five-acre Scully’s Field site in Clonskeagh. Members of the club rejected that approach.

Businessman Denis O’Brien has been trying to develop an office and retail building on a nearby site between Donnybrook Road and The Crescent but has twice been denied planning permission, the latest reversal coming in January when An Bord Pleanala turned down plans for five floors of offices over a floor of retail on the site

there was also a plan to demolish the AIB credit card centre (I believe they are moving to the expanded bankcentre in Ballsbridge and have already sold up) and replace it with a ‘town centre’ development – anyone know anything more on this?

Bernard McNamara behind it.

Yes AIB have pretty much moved their operations from there. Dunno what the development plans are for the site.