A planning application to demolish the former Connacht & Court Laundry buildings at Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham, has been lodged with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

The application which was submitted by BYMAC Project Managers in Clondalkin, envisages the creation of six blocks of offices, the highest being a six-storey building. The total net area of the development is 14,847 sq m.

Familiar to generations of southside Dubliners, the laundry is to be demolished, although the company remains in business. It is in the process of moving to a new facility on the Naas Road. Connacht & Court will have vacated the building by mid-April.

The site area amounts to 24,885 sq m and is located in a good trading/business area east of the existing Homebase building with frontages on to Nutgrove Avenue and Meadow Park Avenue.

The bulldozers could be on site by May and the familiar chimney stack could be a memory by early summer. The development would also see the removal of the current two/three storey office building and tank farm.

There will be 306 car-parking spaces, with 120 spaces for bicycles.