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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The Kilkenny Group has - for now - put a block on plans by a Goodman family firm to construct a €100m office block development on Nassau Street in Dublin



Last month, the retailer along with three other parties, lodged appeals to An Bord Pleanála against the decision by Dublin City Council to give Ternary Ltd the planning go-ahead.

The Kilkenny Group has - for now - put a block on plans by a Goodman family firm to construct a €100m office block development on Nassau Street in Dublin.

The proposed project involves the redevelopment of the Setanta Centre and will create 430 jobs during its construction phase, and will accommodate 1,600 workers when the offices are ready for occupation.

The Council gave the scheme the go-ahead after the applicants reduced the scale of the proposal. The planning authority concluded that the development would integrate satisfactorily with the surrounding development and would not seriously detract from visual amenities and the area's established character and pattern of development.

But the Kilkenny Group houses its flagship Kilkenny Design centre store in the Setanta Centre and has stated that the plan will have consequences for the 88 full time and 20 seasonal employees at the store and the one million shoppers who visit the Kilkenny shop every year.

Ternary has stated that the Kilkenny enterprise is to remain untouched in the redevelopment of the centre.

The firm, Setanta Unlimited which owns the site lists beef baron, Larry Goodman and his son Lawrence Goodman as directors. Lawrence heads up the family's property interests as well as running his own property development business.

Others to also appeal the Council decision are property owner at South Frederick Street, Ciaran McGrath, Trinity Real Estates  and Iput plc.

The objection lodged on behalf of the Kilkenny Group argued that the proposed development includes a design that is both inappropriate for the area and unacceptable for the shop.

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