Drive-through coffee shop pavilion plans for Lucan Retail Park car park
FURTHER information around the particulars for a proposed drive-through coffee shop pavilion in Lucan has been received by South Dublin County Council.
New Ireland Assurance Company PLC has filed four items of additional information for its proposed development at Lucan Retail Park in Ballydowd, Lucan.
Proposals include the construction of a single storey drive-through coffee shop pavilion within the existing carpark of Lucan Retail Park.
The total floor area of the development would equate to 170.45sq.m and the retail unit would operate for the sale and consumption of food and beverages both on and off the premises.
A vehicle circulation route and collection point make up part of the plans. Plans will mean that the existing carpark will be reconfigured and reduced to make way for the new proposed building.
45 car parking spaces will be removed, reducing the car parking capacity from 285 spaces to 240 spaces.
All ancillary site works including drainage, external seating, bicycle parking, signage and landscaping made up the remainder of the proposed development when it was lodged on November 29, 2021.
There was one third party submission in relation to the plans, which was made in the form of an observation by DID Electrical.
An artist impression
DID Electrical stated that while it raised “no objection to the principle of the development and welcomes the continued expansion of businesses in the Lucan Retail Park”, it wanted its observations to be noted.
Solely, the observation pertained to the design of the unit, specifically the “large-scale roof box signage”.
On February 1, 2022, the local planning authority made the decision to request additional information from the developer when it took the South Dublin County Development Plan, the established character of the area along with the scale, design, and standard of the plans into consideration.
The council requested that the developer submitted a revised signage proposal omitting the signage structure at roof level “so as not to be visually obtrusive”.
A detailed landscape was requested to be submitted along with a revised layout showing a provision of bicycle parking spaces consistent with council standards, a 2m wide footpath for mobility impaired users and provision of electric vehicles (EV) charging points.
A record of consultation with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) was also requested to be submitted.
The applicant was requested to submit a revised report and drawing showing Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SuDS) into the proposed development.
As of March 8, Manahan Planners, on behalf of New Ireland Assurance Company PLC, compiled a detailed response to each of the planning authority’s requests for additional information.
