The Irish arm of US property giant, Kennedy Wilson (KW) has secured planning permission for a nine-storey \u201cworld-class mixed-use office led campus\u201d at St Stephen\u2019s Green that will have the capacity to accommodate more than 3,000 office workers.<\/p>\n
Dublin City Council has granted planning permission to KW Investment Funds ICAV for revisions to its office scheme that was granted planning permission at Stokes Place in January 2023.<\/p>\n
At the time, An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la granted permission to KW Investment Funds ICAV to demolish the existing offices at Stokes Place \u2013 used by KPMG \u2013 facing onto St Stephen\u2019s Green and Harcourt Street, and build an eight-storey office block.<\/p>\n
In the new scheme the council has signed off on proposals to add a ninth floor to the scheme. Architects for the proposal, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris \u2013 one of the largest architectural firms in the UK \u2013 said that \u201cas a landmark piece of architecture, the building is now ever more confident and singular, responding to our further understanding of the history of the locality\u201d.<\/p>\n
The new application adds 3,530sq m in office floor space to bring to 40,800sq m.<\/p>\n
The council\u2019s move came after its own planner\u2019s report concluded that having regard to the nature and scale of the proposed development, the proposal would not have an adverse impact on the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
Taking into account the revised drawings \u201cthe reconsidered design allows for a more sympathetic transition and stepped approach to the existing adjoining buildings,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ambition is to develop a world-class, mixed-use campus with a strong focus on office space, supported by outstanding architecture and carefully considered placemaking,\u201d said Stephen Little, a planning consultant for KW.<\/p>\n
He said that \u201cworkplace design has evolved significantly over the past five years, influenced by a growing emphasis on wellness, energy and carbon efficiency, and the shift in work practices following Covid-19. The revised proposal offers a unique opportunity to establish a lasting landmark in Dublin \u2013 one that embodies these principles through four central themes.<\/p>\n
In response to the plans lodged last August, in a submission, BKD Architects on behalf of the owners of 97 to 100 St Stephen\u2019s Green, DTIL Ltd stated that \u201cour client has a number of concerns with certain aspects of the proposed design, and the potential adverse impacts that will arise as a result of the development\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish arm of US property giant, Kennedy Wilson (KW) has secured planning permission for a nine-storey \u201cworld-class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,83768,18040],"class_list":{"0":"post-243057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kennedy-wilson","12":"tag-kpmg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}