Amazon re-submit planning application for old Jacobs site
By Maurice Garvey
AMAZON’S development of the former Jacobs factory on Belgard Road, hit a minor snag recently, when a planning application was declared invalid after the site notice failed to mention the word ‘South’.
An invalid site notice was declared on March 15 by South Dublin County Council, following an inspection, which found the site notice on Belgard Road referred to Dublin City Council, rather than South Dublin County Council.
Thus requirements of the planning and development regulations were not complied with.
However, the plans have been re-submitted this week by ADSIL (Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited).
Plans contain the same details as before – proposals for the “partial demolition of the main factory building” and demolition of existing extensions and out-buildings” comprising a total floor area of 5,480sq.m.
A decision on the planning application is due from the council by May 10.
The Echo understands the Belgard Road site is scheduled to become a data centre – generating jobs and investment for the area.
The Echo broke previous details of Amazon’s Tallaght investments, including the acquisition of the former Jacobs factory in July 2015, which followed the construction of two further data centres on the Greenhills Road.
This includes data centres at the former Tesco warehouse – purchased for €7.5 million in 2011 – and at the former Shinko building.
Workers have been on location at the Belgard Road site for over seven months now, and all windows have been boarded up, with new security cameras in place.
This is the first time that works have required a planning permit.
Prior to its acquisition, the former Jacobs factory had been lying idle since 2008.
