The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has announced that it lodged it's planing application for a new control tower at Dublin airport with an Bord Pleanala on Friday last August 7. If the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) decide to proceed with the construction of a second runway at Dublin it will be necessary to build a new control tower. Since the DAA's plans to construct the second runway have been put on hold, the IAA have requested that the permission have a lifetime of ten years. The IAA has also stated that no further work, other than to facilitate the planning application, will be undertaken until such time as the DAA commits itself to 'firm and fixed dates' for the construction of the runway.
The new tower will be situated on a 1.88 ha site adjacent to the current tower which long with it's infrastructure, will be retained as a backup facility. With a height of 86.9m, the new tower will be just 10 cm shorter than it's counterpart at London's Heathrow airport.
The IAA have launched a new web site at http://www.iaadublincontroltower.ie/ where full details can be found on the application and Environmental Impact Study (EIS) along with detailed drawings of the facility.
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