{"id":567431,"date":"2026-07-03T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/567431\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:15:12","slug":"dundrum-town-centre-operator-seeks-to-close-off-popular-shopper-route-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/567431\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundrum Town Centre operator seeks to close off popular shopper route \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundrum-town-centre\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundrum-town-centre\/\">Dundrum Town Centre<\/a>\u2019s owner has sought to close off a popular route used by shoppers that connects the centre to the cinema and restaurant area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a submission to D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, representatives for retail property firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hammerson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hammerson\/\">Hammerson<\/a> said the unit previously occupied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/golden-discs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/golden-discs\/\">Golden Discs<\/a> has been \u201ccompromised by the thoroughfare\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It added that it needed to close the route to \u201cavoid delays in letting\u201d the unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The application has come as Dundrum Town Centre prepares for the opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/zara\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/zara\/\">Zara <\/a>Home in the shopping centre, which would be its first store in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Zara owner, Inditex has begun hiring staff ahead of the launch of the new store in Dundrum Town Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The store vacated by Golden Discs earlier this year has one entrance from the main shopping centre and a separate route into the unit from the rear, which links it to another part of the centre that contains Movies at Dundrum and several restaurants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hammerson\u2019s submission to D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has proposed the installation of a new wall at the rear of the unit, preventing entry or exit at the cinema and restaurant end of the store. It has also proposed building a fire door into the new wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">BMA Planning, acting on behalf of Hammerson, said previous tenants had raised concerns about complications they faced while trading from the unit due to the two entrances into the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe previous tenancies of this unit have experienced difficulties with the casual thoroughfare through their premises which has proven to impact negatively on their businesses rather than benefit,\u201d the representatives for Hammerson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They added prospective tenants have told them the currently vacant unit \u201cis compromised by the thoroughfare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hammerson has asked if an exemption certificate can be given to Hammerson for these works, which would avoid the requirement for planning permission and \u201cavoid delays in letting of the unit in question\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundrum Town Centre\u2019s owner has sought to close off a popular route used by shoppers that connects the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,7923,18,242127,7925,19,17,7767],"class_list":["post-567431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dundrum-town-centre","tag-eire","tag-golden-discs","tag-hammerson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-zara"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}