Amazon pays €3m to SDCC in planning fees
By Aideen O'Flaherty
AMAZON Web Services has paid over €3m in fees to South Dublin County Council in their applications for planning permission.
The applications included the requisite application fees, and then a larger developer’s fee when applications were granted planning permission.
The fees date back to Amazon’s first application for planning permission in 2011, up to their most recent applications this year.
The highest number of fees paid by Amazon was in their application for the redevelopment of the Jacob’s Biscuits site in June 2016, where they paid an application fee of €38,000, and, on securing planning permission, they paid a developer’s fee of €1,621,350.
Fianna Fail councillor Charlie O’Connor told The Echo: “This is evidence now available to us that Amazon are making a huge investment in the local economy, which is of course very welcome.
“I’ve always taken the view that Amazon coming to Tallaght is a good news story.”
The tech giant has already acquired four sites in the county, three of which are data centres.
Amazon purchased the site of the former Jacob’s Biscuit Factory on Belgard Road in 2015, where they are currently building a data centre.
This follows the tech giant’s acquisition of the Shinko Microelectronics site in 2014, which is located in the Greenhills Industrial Estate in Tallaght.
The former Shinko site is adjacent to a former Tesco distribution centre, which is also being used as a data centre for Amazon, and this brought the number of Amazon data centres in Tallaght to three.
The fourth site, which is in Greenhills Business Park, was acquired by Amazon who recently demolished the former Barrett’s warehouse on the site after securing planning permission for the demolition.
It is not known what Amazon’s future plans for the site are.
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