Designs fell short on parking and transport access

Designs for the children’s hospital failed to address serious concerns about parking capacity, access by motorists, and availability of public transport.

While most of the reasons given for refusing permission centred on the height and scale of the proposed building and its impact on the visual streetscape around it, the An Bord Pleanála inspector who examined the application also found the traffic management arrangements severely flawed.

She said she did not consider it reasonable to assume that only 13% of trips made by staff would be by car or that staff would limit themselves to parking in the proposed staff-only areas.