Planning & Development

A selective guide to developments in your area.

AN BORD PLEANÁLA - APPEALS

Location: part of former Bray Golf Club lands, Bray, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: mixed-use development to include 552 units and all associated works. Applicant: Pizzaro Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Cherrywood Science and Technology Construction Company, Pizzaro Developments Ltd, Billy Byrne and others, Mary Price, Ciaran O'Brien, John and Deirdre Anderson, Christine Prendergast, Liam McGarry.

Location: part of former Bray Golf Club lands, Bray, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: mixed-use scheme of 416 units and site works. Applicant: Pizzaro Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Cherrywood Science and Technology Construction Company, Pizzaro Developments Ltd, Bray and District Chamber, Vincent Eaves and others, Ciaran O'Brien, Florentine Properties Ltd, Bryan Glynn and Emer Woodful, Colm and Maeve McCormack, Liam McGarry, Adrian and Nuala McKenna.

Location: 8 The Bungalow, Brackenstown Road, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish two houses for nine townhouses and 30 apartments. Applicant: Denis Fisher. Appellant(s): Catherine O'Connor, St Columba's Residents Association.

Location: lands adjoining Coláiste Pharaic, Roselawn, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house for six houses, new boundary walls and railings, new site entrance and access to adjoining school. Applicant: Murfield Homes. Appellant(s): Kenneth, Margaret and Paul Adams.

Location: Verville Retreat, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3. Proposed development: 58 residential units and refurbish Verville Retreat and outbuildings and all ancillary site works (protected structure). Applicant: The Verville Partnership. Appellant(s): Ann and Liam Quigley, Mary and Alan Freehill, The Verville Partnership.

Location: corner of Creighton Street and Windhill Lane, 17 Creighton Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish offices for a six-storey mixed-use building with basement parking. Applicant: Newlyn Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Frances Sherwin Corr and Anne Sherwin.

Location: Swan Shopping Centre, 250 Lower Rathmines Road/Castlewood Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish boundary walls, extension to units, new entrance from Castlewood Avenue and all site works. Applicant: Sawbridge Ltd. Appellant(s): Teresa Mahony and Robert Brophy, Belgrave Residents Association.

Location: 82 & 83 Cork Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish units for a five-storey mixed-use development to include seven apartments and associated site works. Applicant: James Lombard. Appellant(s): St Margarets Terrace Residents Association, James Lombard, John Kennedy and Rowan Oberman.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Seapoint Dart Station, Seapoint Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: removal/demolition of station and footbridge for new building with full mobility impaired access. Applicant: Iarnród Éireann (with revised conditions).

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: Saint Michael's House, Dundrum Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish two buildings and outbuildings for a 10-storey building of 24 residential units and office accommodation works. Applicant: Tracey Enterprise (MacAdam) Ltd.

FINGAL - APPLICATIONS

Location: the Summit Inn, corner Thormanby Road and Baily Green Road, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish Tomar House, the Mortgage and Arcadia for two residential blocks on three floors containing 30 two-bed apartments with car-parking for 54 cars at basement level and four spaces at surface level. Replace two-storey building containing bar, kitchen, storage, discotheque at ground floor, office and hotel rooms at first floor with two-storey building over part basement containing storage area, bar/lounge and restaurant, stores, cold storage, kitchen, staff rooms, manager's office, four two-bed and two one-bedroom apartments at first floor and one two-bedroom apartment. Applicant: The Gaffney Partnership.

Location: lands adjacent to junction of N3 and Tolka Way to north of N3 and west of Tolka Way, occupied by Auburn Lodge, Parslickstown, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15. Proposed development: business and technology centre with 3,850sq m (41,441sq ft) of offices over three floors, including 34 surface level car-parking spaces, 122 basement level car-parking spaces and 61 cycle spaces, entrance gates, boundary walls, landscaping and all site development works and the demolition of Auburn Lodge. Applicant: Calcars Ltd.

Location: Palmer Road, Rush, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house for four four-bed detached houses, 14 semi-detached four-bedroom houses, two semi-detached three-bedroom houses, 11 terraced two-storey three-bedroom houses, 27 two-bedroom apartments in two three-storey buildings and all ancillary site works. Applicant: P & M Properties Ltd.

Location: lands to rear of Arcadia, Baily Green Road, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: replace two-storey split level house and car port to rear of Arcadia with access across right of way from Baily Green Road with all site development works and landscaping. Applicant: Mary and John O'Connor.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Harbour Road, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 15,000-litre underground petrol storage tank, dispensing pump vents and vapour recovery. Tanker off-loading slab including new drainage through a proposed new 10,000-litre Enviroceptor, full retention oil separator. Applicant: Howth Yacht Club.

DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN - APPLICATIONS

Location: Rosemount Cottage, Dundrum Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish house for apartment development with seven two-bedroom apartments in a part three-storey, part four-storey building and two two-bedroom apartments in a part single storey, part two-storey building with car-parking, landscaping and all associated site works. Applicant: Fergal and Geraldine MacDonnell.

Location: junction of Adelaide Road and Eden Road Lower, Glasthule, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish unused school building for residential development of three storeys over ground floor comprising 16 apartments (three one-bedroom and 13 two-bedroom units) with 18 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Maria Sweeney and Andrew Heavey.

SOUTH DUBLIN - APPLICATIONS

Location: the King's Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20. Proposed development: part demolition of two-storey student/staff accommodation block which caters for 80 students and replace with three-storey student accommodation block with 39 bedrooms to cater for 76 students, one two-bed duplex staff apartment and one one-bedroom duplex staff apartment, office, study rooms and all associated site works. Applicant: the Governors of the King's Hospital.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: two primary schools containing 16 classrooms, two special needs teaching rooms and ancillary rooms with an outdoor junior play area and two outdoor ball courts. Total of 48 staff car-parking spaces to be provided. Applicant: Chartridge Developments Ltd.

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL - APPLICATIONS

Location: at bottom of The Hill Bar, Main Street, Finglas village and Ballygall Road, Finglas, Dublin 11. Proposed development: demolish two-storey bar and restaurant building for a new commercial/residential mixed-use development of six-storey over basement structure with a medical centre on fourth and fifth floors over 39 apartments on three storeys, four ground floor retail units with basement car-parking for 116 cars, associated site works and landscaping. Applicant: Frank Gleeson.

Location: site of 0.3730 hectares at Grove Industrial Estate, Grove Road, Finglas, Dublin 11 bounded to the north by a laneway to the rear by Sycamore Road, to the west by the rear gardens of Finglas Park, to the south by the rear gardens of Grove Avenue and to the east by Grove Road. Proposed development: one, three and four-storey development of 60 residential units in two blocks. Block A: one, three and four-storey block with 15 one-beds, 12 two-beds, eight two-bed duplexes, one three-bed unit and three three-bed duplexes. Block B: four-storey block with three one-beds, 16 two-beds and two three-bed duplexes with 92 car-parking spaces and 96 cycle spaces at basement level, site works and landscaping. Demolish print works on site. Applicant: Gerard Morgan.

Location: 31-32A Gloucester Street South, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish warehouses for a six-storey mixed-use development with retail units, offices and three two-bed apartments with nine basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Charles Humphreys.

Location: Chapel Building, Marys Abbey, Dublin 1. Proposed development: attach antennae and associated equipment to roof of Chapel Building. Applicant: Irish Broadband.

Location: the Barn, Riversdale Avenue, off Bushy Park Road, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish the Barn, relocate entrance gates to entrance to Riversdale House and erect four dwellings with basement level swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi, associated services with courtyard and walled garden with a three-storey two-bedroom guest/nanny quarters. Applicant: John Morrissey.

Location: EMO petrol station, 2-4 Mount Brown, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish service station for a six-storey building with 22 apartments with underground car-parking for 19 cars. Applicant: MB Service Station Ltd.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Littlegrove, Milltown Road, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish dwelling for a five-storey residential block with 12 two-bedroom apartments with 20 car-parking spaces and all associated site development works. Applicant: Frank Gilmer.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: Jack Restan Displays, Walkinstown Avenue, Dublin 22. Proposed development: demolish building on site for a mixed-use development to include offices, retail, 62 residential units (13 one-beds, 43 two-beds and six three-beds) with 68 car-parking spaces and associated site development works. Applicant: Jack Mark and Rhonda Restan.