Fair City's Carrigstown is due to be knocked down and replaced by a housing development after RTÉ completed the sale of land at its Donnybrook campus for €107 million.
However, fans of the popular soap need not worry as the set of the fictional Dublin suburb will merely be uprooted and rebuilt on a new site.
The broadcaster submitted a planning application to Dublin City Council last month for the relocation of all eleven sets, including exteriors for McCoy's pub and the Hungry Pig, to an area currently used as a car park and for waste.
Monday was the last day for submissions and planners are expected to give a final decision on the 'new' Carrigstown later this summer.
Seven objections were lodged by local residents which included concerns over the proximity of the new set to homes, noise pollution and the "unsociable" hours of work of the set which can be extended to 10pm two nights a week.
The relocation has taken on a new urgency following the successful sale of just under nine acres of land, which includes the existing Fair City set, to Cairn Homes PLC for €107 million. The company says it plans to build 500 apartments and nine houses on the site.
The money from the sale will be used by RTÉ to clear debts as well as to invest in new technology.
RTÉ has reassured viewers that there will be no disruption to the broadcast of the show while the new set is under construction.
Back in 1989, when the soap first went on air, the exterior shots were filmed in Drumcondra on Dublin's Northside.
However, a purpose-built set was eventually constructed on the RTÉ campus in the mid '90s as the number of weekly episodes increased.
