Westside Place Student Accommodation, Galway

The development involves the construction of a building varying in height from 1-storey to 7-storey, (with roof level plant and lift overruns), comprising 240 no. student accommodation bedspaces with associated facilities. The 240 bedspaces (including 12 no. accessible units) are provided in 32 no. clusters ranging in size from 4 no. bedspaces to 8 no. bedspaces, and all clusters are served by a communal living, kitchen and dining room. The development also includes the relocation eastwards of the pedestrian access route in the carpark from Seamus Quirke Road to Westside Shopping Centre and the reorganisation of car parking spaces and internal roads to the north and west of the proposed student accommodation building, including resurfacing part of the car park’s internal circulation road to a shared surface and the removal of 94 no. existing car parking spaces from within the Westside Shopping Centre surface carpark, resulting in a total of 238 no. spaces remaining in the car park