27 storey tower for Drogheda
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Oh my god. That new proposal is absolutely disgusting. What are they thinking? It is very terracotta.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but Douglas Wallace are very pr minded, I get releases from them all the time – except on this.
@lexington wrote:
Original Scotch Hall Tower 27-storey Proposal
Revised 26-storey ProposalDeveloper: Edward Holdings (Talebury Limited)
Architects: Douglas WallaceI can’t say I’m not disappointed. 🙁
The big decision date is set for the 18th October 2005 – maybe a date worth keeping in mind.
not too long to go now! i hope they build the first one. it looks really nice. the other one looks very terracotta. yuck would be an understatement.
@alpha wrote:
not too long to go now! i hope they build the first one. it looks really nice. the other one looks very terracotta. yuck would be an understatement.
Doubtful – the 2nd design is the subject of redesign following Significant Further Information requests, in effect, it is a revised plan in addressment to some of the Boro Council’s concerns. The 1st Tower did not address these concerns and essentially does not represent the existing application. A decision date is due on the 16th October 2005. Such a pity.
Looks like Drogheda will have to hold its breath a little longer as Talebury Properties (the Edward Holdings SPV) has been requested for Further Information again by Drogheda Borough Council.
i hate saying it but that doesn’t surprise me at all. delays seem to be the norm.
It surprises me; it should have been refused the reworked drawings are the worst advertisement for taller buildings I have seen for some time. The scheme simply has no coherence whatsoever it looks like a cut and paste from three different cad-drawings fused together.
i like the first proposal but i don’t like the second one.
how are things going with this proposal these days. it hasn’t been mentioned in a while. anyone know what the latest is? the further info was requested a good few weeks ago now.
That revised option has put me off that one altogether.
The second one is completely ugly. The first one was far better. Typical small minded irish planning
@alpha wrote:
how are things going with this proposal these days. it hasn’t been mentioned in a while. anyone know what the latest is? the further info was requested a good few weeks ago now.
The project is still in Further Information.
i really liked the first proposal. they should have left it alone.
I forgot to mention Significant Further Information on the scheme is due to be lodged imminently. The proposal has received yet another design revision at the hands of Douglas Wallace and will home 101 residential units among other elements. I didn’t get to review the details in depth unfortunately but if I read it right the height has been adjusted on both the 26 and 13-storey blocks although the same number of floors will remain in the taller tower. I’m open for correction on that.
Edward Holdings’ ambitious Southbank scheme, which forms part of the broader Scotch Hall development along Drogheda’s revived south quays/Marsh Road area, is now set for a planning decision by Drogheda Borough Council on June 14th 2006. The proposal, designed by Douglas Wallace Architects, regular collaborators with Gerry Barrett’s progressive development firm, have submitted the 2nd round of significant further information which has seen various modifications to the project. Initially submitted as part of a wider residential, office and retail scheme – the tower element initially realised at 27-storeys and over 170 residential units. The scheme was modified subsequent of planning requests – the removal of various materials (such as copper graced elements on the lower 13-storey block elements etc) and reconfiguration of the taller tower (reduced in height and unit numbers to just over 100 apartments) were submitted to the authority – the redesign proved controversial and further information was again requested. Modifications have again been implemented – although the precise extent of changes is not known.
The 14th June 2006 will be a significant date in deciding Drogheda’s continued rejuvenation.
http://www.unison.ie/drogheda_independent/stories.php3?ca=34&si=1614343&issue_id=14045
Scotch Hall tower plan abandoned
By Donncha MacRaghnaillDROGHEDA’S proposed skyscrapers have been scrapped in a dramatic scale down of the new Scotch Hall expansion on the Marsh Road.
In a dramatic turn of events, developer Talebury Properties Ltd has axed it plans to seek permission for two large residential towers, one measuring 27 stories high, the other at 13 stories as part of the Southbank development, a phase two of the Scotch Hall development.
The revelation came in the latest official correspondence on Friday, April 21, with the borough council which had requested clarification on certain points of further information it had received concerning Drogheda’s most ambitious planning application to date.
Talebury Properties, owned by Galway developer Gerry Barrett, had previously scaled down the height of the towers, but has now completely removed the residential portion, consisting of some 159 apartments.
Planned bars, a restaurant, crèche and cafes which were at the base of the towers are also gone.
The latest correspondence stated: ‘It is noted that the residential towers are clearly high elements and have generated a high level of concern with the local authority (and third parties).
‘For this reason this entire element has been removed in order to allow the processing of the rest of the application,’ it said.
The proposed multiplex cinema remains in the plans as does a host of retail and office units, all of which the borough council is yet to make a decision on.
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