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Thu 10 Oct 2007Watch this SpaceTemple Bar scheme approved:Aztec Properties, controlled by Wexford-based Stafford Holdings, has been granted permission by Dublin City Council to redevelop the former ESB offices and showrooms at the entrance to Temple Bar on Fleet Street, Dublin 2.The 1960s building, bought for €33 million, will be demolished for a six-storey block with two further storeys set back. The development will have 1,313sq m (14,133sq ft) of retail space in three units at street level and a further 1,299sq m (13,982sq ft) in the upper basement. Office space on floors one to seven will extend to 8,188sq m (88,135sq ft). The Fleet Street premises was one of a small number of ESB buildings excluded from the sale of its retail network to Bank of Scotland (Ireland).