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Dundrum: centre plan lodged with council

Thursday, 24 April 2008

A planning application for the second phase of the redevelopment of Dundrum town centre - which includes plans for another new shopping centre - has been lodged with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.
The 4.4 hectare site includes the old Dundrum Shopping Centre and adjoining lands including all properties on west of Main Street between the old shopping centre and the Parochial House (including Glenville Terrace).
The development comprises a total of 106,618 sq m gross floor area, which includes buildings ranging from four to nine storeys in height.
The residential aspect of the current site would be increased from 15 to 40 units and the development would see the construction of 1,900 underground car parking spaces.
The main centre would comprise a retail/commercial centre arranged around three stacked malls with accommodation over four levels.
There would also be nine restaurant units (2,508.5 sq m), a public library (963.5 sq m), crèche (217.6 sq m) and a medical centre. Level five rises above roof level of the main centre and accommodates a leisure centre (1,124.2 sq m).
A hotel located at the north end of the development extends over nine storeys and comprises 96 bedrooms, lobby/reception, bars, restaurants, function room, conference suites and ancillary facilities.
Vehicular access/exit to the proposed development will be from the Dundrum by-pass via a proposed underpass connecting to the main shopping centre.
The site includes the demolition and development of several properties on the main street in Dundrum and on Glenville Terrace.
Council management presented the planning application to local councillors at a Dundrum area committee meeting recently.
Cllr Gerry Horkan (FF) said the proposal would reinvigorate the main street in Dundrum and the surrounding area.
“There will be people living over the shops and it will give an element of residential life to the main street that hasn’t been there in a long time,” he said. “The new units on the street are intended to include butchers and bakeries that should add a bit of life as well.
“There is a little bit of concern about the height of the nine storeys in the hotel element of the plan and obviously the people in there will have to make sure that they are okay with it,” he added. “It will be a different streetscape to what they had before.
“The main street itself will certainly be livened up and there are all kinds of traffic management plans. While it won’t be pedestrianised completely there will be a lot more pedestrian activity and opportunities for people to move around on the main street.”
He added that although the council was due to make a decision on the application by the end of the month it was possible that they would request the developers to provide further information on the scheme.

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