Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is a
shopping centre
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The first known collec ...
located in
Dublin 22
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,
Ireland
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which Comprises 80 stores and 20 Restaurants. The centre opened on and is located near the junction of the
M50 motorway and
N4 road closely surrounded by Lucan to the west, Palmerstown Village to the east and Clondalkin to the south. The centre was a scaled-down replacement for a much larger complex once mooted for the site, known as Quarryvale, the development of which was highly controversial. After over a decade without major development, the centre was extended in 2016.
Tenants
Anchor tenants at the centre are Ireland's largest
Marks & Spencer
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,
Dunnes Stores
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,
Next
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, and Ireland's largest
Boots
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. In 2010 large
H&M and New Look fashions stores opened in the centre of the mall. The centre is home to
Vue Dublin
Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Dublin 22, Ireland which Comprises 80 stores and 20 Restaurants. The centre opened on and is located near the junction of the M50 motorway and N4 road closely surrounded by Lucan ...
cinemas (formerly
Ster Century
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Dublin). One of the anchor tenants at the time of opening was Ireland's only branch of
C&A, which closed when the parent firm exited the UK market. This unit was taken by
Dunnes Stores
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In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain also has operations in Spain, and formerly in England and Scotland. The fo ...
.
An associated retail park, The Retail Park, Liffey Valley, is nearby, with several warehouse-style stores.
Renovations
![LiffeyValleyRenovated](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/LiffeyValleyRenovated.jpg)
In February 2015, Liffey Valley announced that it was to begin a €26 million expansion of the shopping centre. The expansion had brought six new restaurants to the shopping centre including
Prezzo
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and
TGI Fridays
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. As well as expanding the Vue cinema and building a new
Penneys
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which opened on 6 December 2016.
Tesco
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opened in the summer of 2018.
and was expected to create 450 new jobs.
The construction of the Penneys Store marked the first new store opening in a decade, leading the branch at Liffey Valley to be more modernized, incorporating an
Insomnia cafe within the confines of the shop. The general extensions at Liffey Valley attracted significant media interest, and have rejuvenated the local economy. Further extensions were refused planning permission by
An Bord Pleanala
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as they would be detrimental to traffic congestion.
In April 2020 property group Hines submitted a €135 million plan for a major extension to the Liffey Valley Centre in Dublin. The mixed leisure, entertainment and retail extension will include a large public plaza, and creating a new east-west street at the centre. There will also be two large retail units on either side of the plaza.
A new
TK Maxx
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has been built beside the new entrance beside Penneys and opened in 2021.
Transport
Liffey Valley is served by
Dublin Bus
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...
and
Go-Ahead Ireland
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History
With the aim of improving efficiency, in 2015 the ...
routes C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, P29, L51, L53, X25, X26, X27, X28, X30, X31, X32, 26, 40, 51d, 76, 76a
Note that the C-routes, P29 and X-routes do not come to the actual shopping centre, rather to a stop on the
N4 which is linked to the centre via footbridge.
Planning impropriety
For two decades an actual "town centre" had been planned in a central location to serve the Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown areas. But Liffey Valley was built to the northeastern extremity of the area it was originally planned to serve. This meant, as noted by Jerry Barnes, chairman of the
Royal Town Planning Institute
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, that the residents of Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown "have been left for 20 years without an appropriately centrally located town centre which is easily accessible to all. This has very serious long-term implications for thousands of people".
Thirty Dublin councillors were investigated by the
Mahon Tribunal
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over allegations about accepting bribes relating to the rezoning of land in Quarryvale. Seán Ardagh was named in the tribunal's report as having received contributions from lobbyist
Frank Dunlop and developer Owen O’Callaghan, and the report names other councillors as "hopelessly compromised" due to their associations with the project.
References
External links
Liffey Valley Shopping CentreThe Retail Park, Liffey Valley
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Shopping centres in County Dublin
Clondalkin
Buildings and structures in South Dublin (county)
Shopping malls established in 1998