Scoil Chiarain Special School, St Canices Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11, D11 VK64

What’s proposed

The development consists of the construction of a new two-storey school for pupils with special educational needs with a gross floor area of approx.. 4,226 sqm and the phased demolition of the existing single storey school building (approx. 1,764 sqm). Proposed accommodation consists of: 24 classrooms, a general purpose room, a library/resource room, communal teaching spaces, specialist teaching spaces and ancillary accommodation. The existing site entrance off St. Canice’s Road is to be altered with a new one-way access system serving 50 no. on site car parking spaces, 6 no. bus parking spaces and 11 no. bus set down spaces, pedestrian pathways and a new gated vehicular exit and pedestrian entrance also to St. Canice’s Road. Provision of a ball court, play areas, a bin store & heat pump enclosure, roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels, a bicycle shelter with 24 no. bicycle spaces, foul drainage connection, surface water attenuation, signage, landscaping, boundary treatments, and all associated site works on overall site area of approx. 1.6 hectares