OVERVIEW

CSR served as lead planners and EIAR coordinators for this national sporting facility, which is of global significance, being a co-host for the T20Mens World Cup in 2030, and which is located within a highly sensitive semi-rural environment within the campus. The project required several key components to be designed and mitigation provided for what are the most powerful sporting floodlights on the island and which facilitates delivery of public transport directly into the campus for the first time ever in the form of a public transport hub. This permitted development also significantly enhances pedestrian and cycle access into the campus for slow and healthy modes of transport.

‍SERVICE PROVIDED

CSR were lead planners and EIAR coordinators throughout this project and acted as project managers on occasion at crucial times within the planning programme to ensure that deadlines for the achievement of planning permission was achieved to enable commencement works to be undertaken on site in a timely manner and to ensure that interim delivery milestones were met to have the permitted facility available for training, testing and accommodation of trial events, all in good time before the 2030 T20 Mens Cricket World Cup taking place on campus in the summer of 2030. CSR coordinated a very complex team comprising ecologists, architects, aviation, archaeologists, noise, lighting and transport consultants, civil and structural engineers. CSR oversaw and coordinated the preparation of potential development options, option assessment, and detailed technical assessments including aviation impact assessment, mobility and event management plans, and construction and environmental management plans to avoid negative cumulative impact with simultaneous activities occurring on campus with cricket during both the construction and operational period.

Planning permission was granted for the National Cricket Centre in November 2025.

All images courtesy of Sport Ireland. ‍