Site at Kingswood Drive and Kingswood Road within the Citywest Business Campus, Naas Road, Dublin 24

What’s proposed

Amendments to the development permitted under Reg. Ref. SD18A/0301 comprising of alterations to the permitted two storey data centre building including internal reconfiguration, alterations to finished floor levels, alterations to the building footprint to provide for the relocation of an internal staircore to the south of the building, and the replacement of the enclosed first floor level with an open screened roof mounted plant space (resulting in a reduction of 4,091sq.m in the gross floor area (GFA) of the data centre building); Associated alterations to the facade of the data centre building, including alterations to fenestration, cladding, step-out in the southern facade to accommodate a staircore, and a reduction in the eastern building parapet height of c. 2 metres; Provision of a canopy over the loading docks on the east facade; Alterations to the permitted generator compound, generators, and flues, including a reduction in the number of generators (5 now proposed), and provision of MV rooms within the generator compound; Provision of an ESB substation compound in the north-eastern portion of the site, comprising a single storey substation building (with a GFA of c. 125sq.m), within a 2.6 metre high security fence, 2 transformers, client control building (with a GFA of c. 47sq.m), and associated access arrangements; The ESB substation compound will be accessed from Kingswood Drive; Omission of the permitted sprinkler tank, pump room and 10kV Substation, reconfiguration of the permitted car parking, and revisions to permitted boundary treatments; Associated alterations to landscaping, access and internal road arrangements, services, lighting, and layout, and all associated and ancillary works