Dublin City Council has granted the Ronan Group Real Estate company planning permission to build a mixed-use development on its Waterfront South Central site on Dublin’s north quays.
The approval allows for the construction of 550 homes on the last riverside site in the Dublin Docklands, where RGRE is currently developing a new corporate premises for Citi bank.
It will include the tallest building in the Republic of Ireland – a 25-storey structure – and amendments to the previously granted office block comprising 175,302 square feet delivered to the highest sustainability standards.
The DCC approval decision permits the construction of a residential scheme arranged in three blocks ranging in height from six to 25 storeys over a double-level.
It also permits an additional basement level in an eight-storey commercial building on the site that formed one of the three commercial blocks granted in an earlier permission.
Waterfront South Central is a 4.7 acre site fronting onto the River Liffey on Dublin’s North Wall Quay, and it will deliver nearly 750,000 square feet of office space, where RGRE is already building 461,000 square feet across nine storeys of Grade A office block for Citi. Construction is at an advanced stage.
The three residential blocks of 6, 12 and 25 storeys will be the latest iteration of Ronan Group’s Libra Living residential platform which was launched near the Waterfront site in the 360 residential units at Spencer Place where RGRE also delivered Salesforce Tower and the Samuel Hotel
Ronan Group will work with architect Paul O’Brien of Henry J Lyons and Tom Phillips of Tom Phillips Associates, the same team that has delivered the first phases of the Glass Bottle development, where more than 3,500 residential units and 1 million sq feet of commercial space are being constructed.
Aidan Gavin, chief investment officer at Ronan Group, said that Waterfront South Central will be a best in class working environment for more than 6,500 people and an opportunity to welcome over 1,300 future residents to the Libra Living experience.
