Approval given for second tallest building

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / August 8

24-storey tower

Planning permission for Ireland's second tallest building - a 24-storey apartment tower about 1˝ times the size of Liberty Hall - has been granted by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The apartment tower on the former M J Flood site in Sandyford Industrial Estate will be second in height only to the 32-storey residential tower approved by Bord Pleanála for a site opposite Heuston Station in Dublin. It will be more than twice the height of the 10-storey tower proposed for the former baths site on Dún Laoghaire seafront, and about one-third higher than the 17-storey tower also approved by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for nearby Leopardstown at the edge of the Sandyford Industrial Estate. The title of Ireland's second tallest building could be challenged very quickly, however, as a 32-storey building has also been proposed for the Jurys/Berkley Court site in Ballsbridge. Between them all the towers would have the potential to significantly change the profile of south Dublin, providing a series of what planners call "landmark buildings".

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