Ringline Investments has submitted plans to develop over 350 purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) apartments on a site on Dublin’s North King Street. The development will include 361 bedrooms in a mix of 62 studios, 291 single rooms and eight accessible rooms.
The seven storey building includes a library, gym, yoga studio, reception and exhibition space, laundry, games room, office/admin and luggage/parcel store and retail.
There will also be a central courtyard at ground level, a roof terrace at fifth floor level along Brown Street North to the south and a roof terrace at sixth floor level along North King Street.
A total of 1,934 sqm of communal amenity space, which consists of 1,195 sqm of external amenity space and 739 sqm of internal amenity space is to be provided within the PBSA development. This equates to 5.3 sqm of amenity space per bedroom.
In order to facilitate the proposed development, the existing structures on site will be demolished, with the exception of the façade on North King Street (N) and Bow Street (E), which is a protected structure.
The ground floor level includes a corner retail unit which fronts onto North King Street and Bow Street. The main entrances to the student accommodation scheme are located on North King Street and on Brown Street.
The library will be located along the remainder of the frontage to North King Street, the gym along Brown Street and the laundry area and games room along Bow Street, all of which provide animation and surveillance along the respective frontage.
“The proposal provides for the redevelopment of an underutilised site and delivers much needed student accommodation in a city centre location. As demonstrated in this report, the revised proposed development is fully in accordance with national guidance, the DCC Housing Strategy, zoning, student accommodation policies and objectives and the development management provisions of the DCDP 2022 – 2028.”
Paula Shannon, Planning Report and Statement of Consistency, SCA Planning & Development Consultants
