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Thu 07 Jul 2007AIB's plans for D4 HQ announced in 'de paper'RESIDENTS in Ballsbridge need to be up very early in the morning to keep an eye on the latest attempts to sneak through planning applications.And we're not talking about slippery developers here but the country's biggest bank, AIB, which this week slipped in a planning application to build yet another block in its crowded Ballsbridge bank centre. Notice of the application was craftily published in the Examiner, which is hardly the biggest selling paper in Dublin 4, so as not to attract the attention of the ever vigilant local residents associations. The planned block is by no means a token extension, but will extend to 16,000sq m - a net area of around 172,000sq ft - precisely two-thirds the size of the original bank centre.