New DIT Campus - Grangegorman

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Mr O'Connor now served with an order by Fingal Co Co to cease work on this house..........

Vision for e500m DIT campus is under way

DUBLIN'S new €500m "urban quarter" in Grangegorman and its third level campus is taking shape after a series of "green lights".

The project was boosted by the announcement of the Government's €2bn stimulus package, which saw the project getting an immediate start.

The new Luas Broombridge line, which will serve the new campus, was also given the go ahead from An Bord Pleanala this month.

Michael Hand, chief executive of the Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) said: "We intend to bring 20,000 students to the Dublin 7 area.

"But we also want others to come and experience the new urban quarter in Grangegorman."

Work will now start on preserving and restoring a number of listed buildings on the site and the building of a new health science research facility for 1,000 students.

Another 10,000 students will arrive by 2017, with the completion of the central and east quads, which are public private partnerships.

"Physical" work on the Grangegorman project is already well under way with the building of the new Mental Health Replacement facility for the Health Service Executive, the GDA said.

The new building is due to be completed later this year.

Pipeline

The plan to move 39 Dublin Institute of Technology facilities situated around Dublin into one campus has been in the pipeline for nearly 10 years.

The project involves development on part of the 75 acres of grounds of St Brendan's psychiatric hospital.

Dublin Labour MEP Emer Costello said a unified DIT campus was "terrific news" for Irish education and jobs.

DIT had over 20,000 students and 2,000 staff in six faculties scattered in different sites around the city, making it "a logistical nightmare" for students and staff.

"A single campus is long overdue and will help to make DIT one of the finest third level educational institutions in the world," she said.

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Demolition work to clear the way for DIT’s single campus in Grangegorman is due to start in the new year, and the site will be ready to take students by 2014.

The Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) lodged the first planning notice for DIT’s unified campus with Dublin City Council earlier this month. 16 buildings on the site of St. Brendan’s psychiatric hospital are to be knocked down to make way for services and campus infrastructure like footpaths, lights, benches and playing fields.

Spokesperson for the GDA, Ronan Doyle, told The Edition they hoped to have over 1,000 DIT students studying on the site by 2014. The agency will refurbish a number of protected buildings on the site to accommodate this group, which will include Fine Arts students from Mountjoy Square.

The first new buildings are due to be completed in 2017 through a public-private partnership. A Central Quad will be the first set of buildings to be completed, housing about 10,000 students from tourism, food and science departments. This means half of DIT’s students will be in Grangegorman in five years’ time.

“Things are happening now,” Mr. Doyle said. “We’re very much up and running.” The GDA’s plans for the site became the basis of a Strategic Development Zone after approval came from An Bórd Pleanála last May. “All of the appeals were sorted and the document effectively became a formal development plan,” said Mr. Doyle. “It gives a great sense of security to the project.”

The Broombridge Luas extension, which is planned to serve Grangegorman, also got the go-ahead from an Bórd Pleanála in August.

Initial demolition work will begin early next year, but the changing rooms used by a number of DIT sports clubs are to remain in place longer.

This should allay fears expressed by Stephen Brandon, captain of DIT Caving Club, which is one of several groups that regularly use facilities in Grangegorman. “That’s the first I’ve heard of it,” he said, when told about the demolition notice last week. “I hope they don’t drive a bulldozer through our equipment store without telling us!”

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Tombo2001 wrote: »

What are the big glass buildings in the video and in that photo, just behind the train stop?

Is that part of the college? I thought the college was going to be within the current site of Grangegorman.....

The National Development Finance Agency is looking for a developer to build a €200 million campus at Grangegorman for the Dublin Institute of Technology.
More than a decade after plans for a centralised campus for the largest third-level institution in the State were first announced, the agency has given notice of its intention to begin a public-private partnership process and is asking developers to lodge expressions of interest.
The DIT currently is spread throughout the city centre on 39 separate sites. With 20,000 full- and part-time students, it accounts for close to 10 per cent of all students in higher education in Ireland.
The move to the 50-acre site on part of the former St Brendan’s Hospital grounds is happening in stages and is due to be completed by 2020.
The PPP contract will be for the design, building, finance and maintenance of two “quads” to accommodate 15 existing teaching schools of the institute.
The Central Quad, at about 34,000sq m of internal space, will accommodate about 6,400 students and 450 staff. It will house the schools of science, engineering, maths, computing, culinary arts and hospitality management and will have specialist areas including laboratories, professional kitchens, training restaurants, workshops, teaching space and staff offices.

Creative industries
The East Quad will be about half the size, with 16,000sq m of space for 3,100 students and 250 staff. It has been designated as the creative and cultural industries quad and will accommodate the schools of music, media, languages, social science and law, and art, design and printing.
The facilities will provide specialist areas such as performance spaces, media and computer rooms, musical practice and rehearsal rooms, art and design studios, workshops, teaching spaces, and staff offices.
The current plan is to have up to half of the 20,000 students on campus by 2017, when it is expected to be served by the new cross-city Luas line.
Interested developers will be invited to an information day on September 9th, but contracts are unlikely to be awarded until mid-2015.
Plans for the site were first put forward in the late 1990s. At the time it was thought much of the project could be funded by selling off DIT colleges but the downturn in property prices forced the institute to look to the exchequer for initial funding.

Severe setback
The DIT’s plans suffered a setback in November 2011 when it was one of the major projects, along with Metro North, to lose the commitment of Government funding.
However, Michael Hand, the chief executive of the Grangegorman Development Agency, said at the time the development would still go ahead.
The project got a boost in May last year when it received permission from An Bord Pleanála.
Two months later it was announced by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin as the “flagship” project of the Government’s €2.25 billion infrastructure stimulus package.

DCC backs new access routes for DIT Grangegorman

Dublin city councillors have given the go ahead for new access routes for the DIT Grangegorman development to be built around a site that Maxol has refused to vacate.

Maxol has a petrol station on the site in Broadstone.

It says the council failed to provide an alternative site.

The company is now considering legal action, saying the proposed roadworks would "wipe out" the station’s business.

The Rail Procurement Agency also has planning permission for a Luas stop on the site as part of the new cross-city line.

The agency has instituted compulsory purchase order proceedings.