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take it into consideration in its determination of the matter. A receipt for the fee lodged is enclosed.
The Board will revert to you in due course with regard to the matter.
Please be advised that copies of all submissions I observations received in relation to the application will be made
available for public inspection at the offices of Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and South Dublin County
Council and at the offices of An Bord Pleamila when they have been processed by the Board.
If you have any queries in the meantime please contact the undersigned officer of the Board. Please quote the above
mentioned An Bord Pleanala reference number in any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.
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5th October 2015
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Dear Sir/Madam,
We write in relation to the to the above planning application to detail the concerns that we
have about the proposed development. Our family home at No. 590 South Circular Road is a
minimum of 30m to the west of the proposed development site and accordingly we have a
particular interest in any proposals which may represent a threat to our established
residential amenities. We enclose a cheque made payable to An Bard Pleanala in respect of
the prescribed fee for making a submission outlining our objections to the application.
Objections;
The following are the basis of the objection to the current planning submission design.
PL-00-FA-2100). The height of the building is substantially higher than the existing one on
the site. This part of the development will have;
The height of the building goes against the Dublin City Council Development Plan
where it states that "All high buildings must be of the highest architectural quality
and should aim to have a slenderness ratio of 3:1 or more and regard for the existing
urban form, scale and character, and the built heritage of the area". When viewed
from the south the Family Accommodation will have a ratio of 1:1. 15.9m wide and
16.1m tall.
facing South
This building's height and finish is not in keeping with this historical area of Dublin
and will reduce the character rather than enhance it.
We request that the Southern part of the 'Family Accommodation Unit' be reduced to an
elevation height of at least 12 meters from ground level. This is to keep the building in line
with the buildings of the surrounding area. And to align the building with the Dublin City
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2. Impact of traffic caused by this proposed devel pment This is a residential area with many young families an
to the hospital. The significantly increased volume
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generate will indeed negatively impact on our daily lives and make our living s1 uation
worse. We are concerned with additional strains that access to the proposed hospital will
cause in our neighbourhood. This traffic will not only be at peak hours when employees
enter and leave the complex, which we currently contend with. We understand, but do not
know how it will work in practice, that no more than 728 of the approximate 6,000 staff in
the combined StJames and National Children's hospitals will be expected/allowed to drive
(728 parking spaces available for staff).
considerably less than the existing levels provided in James and in each of the three
Children's Hospitals. However, overall it amounts to a reduction of a mere 244 staff parking
spaces that is meant to mitigate the additional traffic generated by the 350,000 patients
that will be treated in the proposed hospital.
coming into the site per day, and we do not expect the majority of them to use Public
Transport.
As we all know, this area is at maximum capacity during the rush hour periods at present
and this development is proposing rush hour conditions in the area during most of the day
for most working days. We are concerned of the impact that this level of traffic will have on
urgent cases and emergency vehicles trying to get to StJames' Adult Hospital as well as the
proposed National Children's Hospital on the site.
a. Construction Phase Traffic
Per Section 6 of the EIS there are estimates for the lorry movements that will pass our house
to travel to the junction of SCR/Bulfin Road/Suir Road during each of the 3 phases of
construction. As our home is very close to the traffic lights for the entrance to the hospital,
we are very concerned with the noise and vibration that will be caused by waiting trucks at
the junction. Per the information provided, the volume of lorries will be in the region of;
ocr 2o1s
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will pass and wait outside our house. It is worth noting, that based on t e estimates
provided over 111,000 of those are to remove the earth from the site to build the very
substantial basement that will be required for this proposed development. We consider
this to be an indication that the proposed buildings are much too large for the constrained
site due to its inaccessibility. The level on this road is due to the inability of these trucks to
leave the proposed new entrance at Mount Brown.
b. Operational Traffic
Section 6 of the EIS - Pg 132 states that the expected level of additional hospital traffic will
be in the region of 300 - 400 traffic movements per hour. The majority of these will be via
the Brookfield Road Junction (as the replacement junction at SCR & Brookfield). This is a
very significant number of additional vehicles on the road - in the region of 1800 to 2400
per day. We contend that the road network in this neighbourhood cannot sustain this level
of additional traffic and will seriously hinder the access to St. James' Adult Hospital A&E
Department for emergency vehicles.
We request the National Ambulance Service attend the oral hearing to explain how their
service will operate in practice during this development and in the future operational
phase.
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e site.
The application states that "While dust from construction activities tends to be deposited
within 200 m of a construction site, the majority of the deposition occurs within the first SO
m (as shown in Table 12.11). There is no mention in the report as to how any potentially
adverse impact is going to be mitigated for properties outside of the boundaries of the site.
We live 12.9metres from this site and this is a very worrying feature for us. This is
particularly of concern as the excavation works will be taking place over 18 months at a
minimum. We would like to know what specific mitigation actions are planned for the
safety of local residents for the duration of this excavation work.
b. Vermin Control
Due to the extent of the excavations that have to occur as part of this proposed
development, together with the redirection of the Drimnagh Sewer on the StJames' campus
we have a serious concern regarding the disruption of rats and their dispersion into the local
area - i.e. our roads, gardens and houses. This is not covered at all by the developers and
we require same to be controlled, due to the impact this may have on our children. We
request that this matter be addressed by the developer with a view to reducing the impact
on the local area. We also request that this issue be monitored by Dublin City Council.
We also request that Dublin City Council be required to clean the leaves from this road on a
weekly basis during the autumn as there will be an increased risk of vermin infestation due
to this disruption.
c. Sewage
We are concerned that the facility is going to add significant pressure on the local sewage
facilities. The cost of relocating the Drimnagh Sewer is not covered in the budget for the
National Children's Hospital. We have concerns that any disruption to this service will have
serious impacts on our facilities. We would request that Dublin City Council Drainage
division and Irish Water be requested to affirm the plans for the rerouting of the Drimnagh
Sewer and that the successful completion of this should be a condition of further work being
carried out on the site.
d. Flooding
We are also concerned about the area identified as the entrance to the Basement Car-park
and the fact that there are three underground levels at this site. The area identified as the
entrance has flooded twice in the past 7 years and is an area that is recognised as being
subject to flooding. We do not
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constrained site are taken into consideration, it will not be possible for the two access
roads, one of which was built in the 1700s and the other in the 1800s, to deal with the
traffic required for the transport of patients. Is not acceptable that the health of future
generations of our sickest children and our expectant mothers are put at risk by the granting
of this planning permission on this site when other more suitable sites are available in our
city.
As stated in the Non-Technical Summary Page 26 Section 7.2.2 "Following the construction
of the new children's hospital, it is acknowledged that the surrounding street network will
continue to experience traffic queuing and delays at some periods through a typical week
day. The mitigation proposals included as part of the Transport Strategy for the StJames's
Hospital campus and the new children's hospital will ensure however that the increase In
traffic levels and associated impact during these periods are kept to a minimum". We do
not see these mitigation proposals and again suggest that there is no way that we can
mitigate for the requirements of sick people to be brought to hospital by either car or
ambulance.
Without prejudice to the objections raised elsewhere in this submission, we request that in
the event of a grant of permission that the following conditions be attached to its decision: a. To mitigate the issue of light;
We request that the Southern part of the 'Family Accommodation Unit' be reduced to an
elevation height of at least 12 meters from ground level. This Is to keep the building in line
with the buildings of the surrounding area. And to align the building with the Dublin City
Council Development Plan which references a Slenderness Ratio of 3:1
b. To mitigate the issue of traffic;
A full and open review of a traffic plan must be presented to the residents of the
surrounding areas.
We request the National Ambulance Service attend the oral hearing to explain how their
service will operate in practice during this development and in the future operational
phase.
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