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Builder Ronan Plans Skyscraper Triple The Height of Liberty Hall

98FM News
98FM News

04:08 5 May 2019


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It looks like high-profile property developer Johnny Ronan is aiming to upstage himself.

He has begun the process of applying for permission for an even taller skyscraper in the capital.

A new project at North Wall Quay in the Dublin Docklands would include a 44-storey tower, rising to a height of 155 metres.

He already has permission to build Ireland's new tallest building at Tara Street after an successful appeal to an Bord Pleanála last month.

The plan had been twice refused by Dublin City Council planners -- but the planning appeals board gave it the green light, citing new guidelines issued last December by housing minister Eoghan Murphy.

That was to be 88 metres tall -- but fresh plans could put that tower in the shade.

The Sunday Independent reports he now wants to build a 150-metre tall skyscraper as part of a large site near the Three Arena called Project Waterfront.

Conservationists have heavily criticised Ronan's Tara street plan -- and the developer has taken out ads in national newspapers attacking height limits in response.

At nearly three times the height of Liberty Hall, the Project Waterfront tower will take the debate to a whole new level.


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