Carroll firm can finish Anglo HQ building

AN Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a company controlled by developer Liam Carroll to complete the building of the proposed Anglo Irish Bank headquarters in Dublin’s docklands.

The controversial eight storey skeleton building had come to symbolise the failed development of the docklands after work halted on its construction in 2008.

Originally, Anglo provided the funding for the development to Mr Carroll’s company, North Quay Investments, and was to rent part of the development as its new headquarters. Whether the development will now go ahead will be based on a commercial decision by NAMA, which has taken over the loans associated with the development.