Georges Quay development effects explained

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / August 19 1999: Georges Quay development effects explained

The proposed high-rise complex at Georges Quay in Dublin will overshadow the Custom House at certain times of the year, although any shadows caused by the development will be less clearly defined than those caused by a scheme already granted planning permission for the site.

This was stated by Prof Owen Lewis, director of the Energy Research Group at UCD, at the Bord Pleanála hearing on the development yesterday.

Prof Lewis, who was commissioned by the developers Cosgrave Property Group to carry out a light-impact assessment of the scheme, rejected local residents' claims that it would overshadow Trinity College, or any area to the south.

Computer simulations showed the development would cast a shadow moving from west to east at different speeds during the year, taking in a semi-circular area from Tara Street and Burgh Quay to the Custom House, City Quay and Townsend Street.

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