Dublin city planners are to decide early in the new year whether to allow the demolition of Canada House, an indifferent office building at the junction of St Stephen's Green South and Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin 2.
A company led by businessman Denis O'Brien which owns the six-storey over basement building dating from 1972 has sought planning permission to replace it with a bigger block, nine storeys in height.
There are also plans to provide two basement floors with 41 car-parking spaces.
When completed, the new block will have a gross floor area of 11,229 sq m (120,868 sq ft) compared to the present floor area of 3,716 sq m (40,000 sq ft).
The building was originally developed by Hardwicke and the earliest tenants include the Bank of Nova Scotia and Nixdorf.
The Equity Bank - later to become the Bank of Scotland - which took an assignment of the main lease in recent years is planning to move to new headquarters under construction beside the College of Surgeons on St Stephen's Green.
