The development will consist of: The demolition of existing structures on site including the disused sports building (c.604sq.m.) on the Balscadden Road site and former Baily Court Hotel Buildings on Main Street (c.2051sq.m.).
Construction of 177 no. residential units in 3 no. separate apartment blocks and 1 mews building ranging in height from 2-5 storeys, comprising 171 no. apartments and 6 duplexes which includes 44 no. 1 bed units, 103 no. 2 bed units and 30 no. 3 bed units. Balconies/winter gardens/terraces to be provided on all elevations at all levels for the 3 no. apartment blocks. Roof gardens will be provided on Block C. Provision 406 no. bicycle parking spaces and a total of 146 no. car parking spaces, which comprises 112 no. spaces in an underground basement in Block C, 26 spaces in a podium car park in Block B and 8 no. on-street parking spaces.
Provision of commercial/retail space (c. 757sq.m.), which includes a community room (c. 161sq.m.), 2 no. retail units (c.429sq.m and c. 96sq.m.) and a cafe (c.71sq.m.). The main vehicular entrance to the scheme will be from Main Street to serve the underground car park in Block C. A secondary vehicular entrance from Balscadden Road will access the podium parking in Block B. The scheme provides for a new linear plaza which will create a new pedestrian link between Main Street and Balscadden Road to include the creation of an additional 2 no. public plazas and also maintains and upgrades the pedestrian link from Abbey Street to Balscadden Road below the Martello Tower. The public footpath on the opposite side of Balscadden Road will be widened for the length of the site as part of the development.
All other ancillary site development works to facilitate construction and the provision of the basement car park, site services, piped infrastructure, a sub-station, public lighting, plant, bin stores, bike stores, boundary treatments and hard and soft landscaping. It is proposed to reduce the ground levels on the site from c. 35.0m OD to c. 20.0m OD. The basement car park of Block C is proposed at c. 17.0m OD. Excavation will range from 0m to up to c. 18m in depth to facilitate the construction of the development and basement car park. This equates to c. 78,000m3 of material to be removed from site in total. Commercial and retail signage (c. 75sq.m.)
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