The Former Meridian Building, Whitestown Drive, Tallaght Business Park, Dublin 24, D24 HH50

Planning details

Reference

SD25A/0143W

Local authority

South Dublin County Council

Status

Granted · register status “Final Grant”

Received

22 Dec 2025

Observations close

4 Feb 2026 (closed 222 days ago)

Decision due

29 Jan 2026 · decided 29 Jan 2026

Decision

Grant permission on 29 Jan 2026

Proposed development

• Part change of use at ground floor level from office use to warehouse / logistics use (with a Gross Floor Area (GFA) of 944 sq.m) and light industry- manufacturing / food processing use (GFA of 1,860 sq.m), including ancillary staff welfare facilities, with the remainder of the existing floorspace (GFA of 712 sq.m) unchanged from the existing office use; • Proposed extension to the rear / south elevation of the existing building (with a GFA of 861 sq.m), comprising one level with a height of 7.47m, to provide an additional ancillary store to the proposed light industry- manufacturing / food processing use; • Proposed two storey extension (GFA of 13 sq.m) to the north elevation to provide an additional lift shaft and proposed extensions to the northern and west elevations to provide additional lobby / entrance areas (12 sq.m); • Provision of additional floorspace at first floor level (within the existing building envelope) to provide an additional 1,040 sq.m (GFA) of office floor space, ancillary staff welfare facilities, ancillary innovation and testing rooms, storage and plant rooms, and an additional 163 sq.m (GFA) of a mezzanine storage area; • Associated internal reconfigurations and installation of new internal partition walls, and associated alterations to the elevations including materials and fenestration arrangement, additional loading bays and roller shutter doors; • Provision of associated signage including an internally illuminated sign adjacent to the security entrance gate, a directional sign, internally illuminated signage over the entrance doors to the unit and 2 no. signs over entrance canopies; • Reconfigured car parking to provide 72 no. car parking spaces (a reduction from 134), widening of the internal service road, provision of new pedestrian footpaths from the estate road, internal segregated pedestrian footpaths and crossing, and the provision of a security fence and gate; • The proposal includes dock leveller, landscaping, bicycle store, external store with WC/garden store/bin store, plant compound, PV panels to new rear extension roof and bicycle store roof, surface water drainage, including detention pond and swale, and all associated works. The proposed development results in an overall increase of 2,089 sq.m in the total GFA of the unit from 3,516 sq.m to 5,605 sq.m, comprising office, warehouse / logistics, light industry manufacturing / food processing uses, and ancillary staff welfare facilities, innovation and testing rooms, storage and plant rooms

As published by the register.

Site area

1.65 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure

Applicant

Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register

Appeal

Not appealed.

Commencement

No commencement notice matched to this reference.

Provenance

Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 119102). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/68427.

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