Step one of site clearance for new Limerick garda HQ underway

WORK HAS begun on demolishing a Limerick garda station, to make way for a new District Garda HQ. 

The bulldozing and demolishing of a garda station in Newcastle West has started, to facilitate the construction of a new District Garda HQ.

The replacement HQ and site clearance of the previous garda station was announced in September by The Office of Public Works.   

The work is being carried out by Scanlon Construction Ltd. 

The new garda station will consist of a new three-storey building of 1,151 square metres on a site of circa 0.1651 hectares.

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It will replace the old garda station on the site and will provide the operational, functional and accommodation requirements to deliver the new Garda Operating Model. 

The new station will operate as the new headquarters for Community Engagement in the Limerick Garda Division, as per the new Garda operating model which was recommended by the Commission on the Future of Policing. 

The construction will be split into two stages, having now begun with the demolition of the existing station and ancillary building, site clearance along with the decommissioning and removal of all existing site services.

Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan, T.D., said: "Since we lodged the planning application and commenced the tendering process for phase one of this project, I have looked forward to seeing it progress to these next stages.

"Once completed, this building will enhance the public presence in the town while facilitating the policing infrastructure capacity for the region and the surrounding areas."