A chara, - Numbers 21 to 16 South Anne Street, part of the weft and weave of this minor street of mixed users, are to go. Not even the front walls, poised as they are over tiny cellars, can remain. Will this be termed a restoration?
Wiser counsels could have decreed that they remain pretty well as they should be; small shops, a healthy dry basement, and 18 perfectly delightful 600-sq-ft apartments overhead.
But despite an inspector's positive recommendation on these lines it is not to be; An Bord Pleanala has said so. So what could be an oasis off the commercial gangland that is Grafton Street is being made join it. - Is mise,
Uinseann Mac Eoin, Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.