Part 2 Commercial Monitoring

2.1 Developed and occupied commercial floorspace

In order to decipher the level of developed and occupied commercial floorspace within the County from the end of Q2 2022 up to the end of Q2 2023, the postal service Geo-directory spatial dataset was used to identify all registered commercial buildings which had been identified as new additions during this period.

Industry Type	Floor Area (Sqm)
Light Industry	42,983
Logistics	48,649
Office/Service Industry	18,512
Storage/Warehousing	14,672
Retail Distribution	88,025
Retail Sales (Includes general retail/cars sales etc	10,698
Data Centre	6,681
Total	230,220

The table on the right provides details in regard to the floor area of the developed and occupied commercial floorspace for each industry type identified totalling 230,220sqm.

2.2 Planning permissions for business/employment uses (m2 of development) for:

(i) Office
(ii) Industrial
(iii) Retail
(iv) Warehousing/Logistics

Since the adoption of the Plan South Dublin County Council have been maintaining a manual dataset relating to permissions for business/employment uses and the sqm of development permitted. The data set includes details of all development types in the County and from a monitoring perspective categorises all commercial permissions into the four identified categories of Office, Industrial, Retail and Warehousing/Logistics.

Industry Type	Total sqm of Development	SQM	Development Type (No.)	Development Type
Data Centre	62,387	37.1%	11	11.5%
Industrial	10,338	6.1%	31	32.3%
Office	4,893	2.9%	7	7.3%
Retail	8,243	4.9%	25	26.0%
Warehousing / Logistics	82,389	49.0%	22	22.9%
Totals	168,199	100.0%	96	100%