The Lord Mayor of Dublin Caroline Conroy officially opened the North City Operations Depot on 20th June 2023.
“This is a fantastic day for Dublin City Council and for the Ballymun area,” said the Lord Mayor. “The new depot will provide high-quality facilities to enable staff to operate more safely, efficiently, and effectively. It will result in better services and help the City Council meet its climate action targets. It’s a major boost for Ballymun and crucially, it also frees up some existing depot sites for social housing.”
The land on which some of these smaller depots are located will now be released for more appropriate development including the provision of much-needed social housing units.
This state-of-the-art staff-only facility includes:
- Four-storey office and welfare building with locker rooms, shower facilities, serviced canteen, laundry facilities, and drying rooms along with briefing rooms, training rooms, and office accommodation
- New custom-built operations workshops including metal, painting, electrical, carpentry, and fleet workshops as well as a signage and fleet branding unit
- A large salt barn with a capacity for 1,200 tonnes of road salt
- Purpose-built Central Stores
- A garage facility for parking designated vehicles requiring frost protection
- Waste compaction area
- Vehicle wash area
- Equipment storage areas
- Multi-story car park accommodating over 100 small fleet vehicles, approximately 200 staff vehicles, and over 200 bicycle spaces.
The purpose-built depot brings together operations from waste management, housing maintenance, electrical services, public lighting, traffic, surface water maintenance, drainage planning, and road maintenance into one campus for the first time.
The new depot includes a range of landscape features that will greatly enhance biodiversity in the area including a new pond, tree planting, and new wildflower meadow planting.