IT Tallaght to construct Sport Science, Health and Recreation building
By Brendan Grehan
IT TALLAGHT have applied to South Dublin County Council for planning permission to build a Sport Science, Health and Recreation Building which will contain a single storey sports hall and teaching accommodation and facilities arranged over two storeys plus roof plant areas with a total floor area of 3,175sq.m, grass playing pitch 140 x 90m with flood lighting; score boards; 1m high spectator barrier; 12m high x 25m wide ball catch nets behind goal posts and spectator seating.
The development will include an external landscaped quadrangle, pedestrian areas, footpaths and landscaping, 56 covered bicycle spaces, covered walkways and demolition of 46 existing car parking spaces.
IT Tallaght plans to build a recreation building
They have also applied for permission to build enhanced pedestrian crossing facilities at the Greenhills Road entrance comprising new raised entry treatment across access and pedestrian refuge island on Greenhills Road with associated road markings and traffic signs.
The site is centrally located within the ITT campus which is bounded by Belgard Road to the west, industrial buildings accessed off Airton Road to the north, Greenhills Road to the east and to the south by Old Blessington Road and the grounds of the Old Priory, Tallaght.
