Dodsborough & Finnstown

Construction of a predominantly part two storey, part three storey primary school (there is a small single storey element to the south of the building) c.5,582.6sq.m GFA overall including 32 classrooms, general purpose room, offices and administrative rooms and stores including a 4 classroom Special Education Needs Base with associated facilities at ground floor level; there will be approximately 70sq.m of solar panels provided on the roof of the school; the proposal also comprises of 4 ball courts, together with 2.4m high paladin fencing; a sensory garden and grass play areas; the boundary to the school site is comprised predominantly of a 2.4m high low brick wall with railings, including 2.4m high gates to all pedestrian and vehicular access points; 40 staff car parking spaces and 17 drop-off spaces will be provided with separate vehicular entrance and exit to serve the development provided off Adamstown Park; maintenance access to the school site is provided from the permitted Side Street to the west permitted under Reg. SDZ19A/0011; pedestrian cycle entrances to the school site are provide off Adamstown Park and from the permitted Side Street to the west permitted under Reg. SDZ19A/0011; all ancillary site development and landscape works, including boundary treatments, 188 bike parking stands, 3 10m high flagpoles and an ESB Sub-Station; This application is being made in accordance with the Adamstown Planning Scheme 2014, as amended and relates to a proposed development within the Adamstown Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme Area, as defined by Statutory Instrument No. 272 of 2001 on a site (approx. 1.43 Ha) in the townlands of Dodsborough and Finnstown bounded generally to the north by the Adamstown Drive, to the east and south by Adamstown Park and to the west by undeveloped lands which have planning permission for a development known as Tandy's Lane Village Phase 1 (SDZ19A/0011) and beyond is the remainder of the undeveloped Tandy's Lane Village Development Area