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New plan for 43 apartments and retail unit on Parnell Street:A week after being turned down by An Bord Pleanála, Treasury Holdings has submitted new plans for a site next door to the Jurys Inn hotel in Parnell Street, Dublin. The 700sq m (7,567sq ft) triangular site is at the corner of Parnell Street and Moore Lane.

Treasury's plans to build an eight-storey apartment building with 39 apartments and a shop were refused by the planning board on February 1st, but seven days later the firm submitted a new proposal to Dublin City Council.

The new plan involves a nine-storey building with eight one-bedroom and 35 two-bedroom apartments and a retail unit at ground level. The previous plan for six one-bedroom and 33 two-bedroom apartments was turned down by the planning board on the grounds that it was of "poor architectural value".

Over 200 homes planned for former bakery site in D7

New plans for a large development on the site of the former Phibsborough Bakery in Dublin 7 will see over 200 residential units built on the site which overlooks the Royal Canal at Cross Gun Bridge.

Stateford Ltd is seeking permission from Dublin City Council for the scheme, which will contain two 13-storey apartment blocks. The development will comprise 207 apartments and six terraced two-storey townhouses.

Last year Stateford Ltd was refused permission by the council for a similar scheme on the grounds that the height and density was unacceptable.

Council rejects 99-unit scheme adjoining St Raphaela's School

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has turned down an application to build a residential development at St Raphaela's Convent on the Upper Stillorgan Road, Co Dublin.

Shannon Homes was looking to build 98 apartments in two blocks (rising to six storeys) and one townhouse on a 0.96-hectare site adjoining the school.

St Raphaela's School undertook a land swap with Shannon Homes so it could build a hockey pitch.

The proposal did not meet with the approval of planners who said the scheme would be "visually overbearing" and would cause significant overlooking of the school.

It would also, according to the council, seriously injure the amenities of the area and depreciate the value of surrounding houses. The number of one-bedroom apartments in the scheme also came in for criticism from planners.