Watch this Space: Redquartz Boundary Ltd has been granted planning permission for a large mixed-use development at Blackpitts, Dublin 8.
The residential, retail and commercial development is on 1.4 acres. The blocks will have 4,561sq m (49,094sq ft) of office space, 1,449sq m (15,597sq ft) of retail and commercial and a crèche. There will also be 136 apartments, ranging from six to nine storeys. The plan is to retain the Tenters pub and convert its upper floors to retail and commercial and turn the craft work building into two retail and commercial and office units and part of the derelict malthouse into an art gallery. A new east-west oriented street will run between Warrenmount Lane and Blackpitts. The directors of Redquartz Boundary Ltd, which is also behind the €200 million Carrickmines Manor development with Pierse Homes, are David Kelly, Declan Cassidy and Paul Pardy.
Green light for Sandford Park
Sandford Park school in Ranelagh, Dublin 6 has been granted permission by Dublin City Council for works to its schoolhouse, a protected structure built in 1894 for James Pile. The fee-paying post primary school opened in 1922. The works will include a teachers' resource centre in the basement, where the kitchen and canteen used to be, the reconfiguration of the reception area, the renovation of a first floor apartment and the provision at second floor level of a two-bed apartment, including partial change of use from classroom use. The school will also demolish a single storey entrance to the rear and build a new entrance.
Irishtown penthouses rejected
An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for 13 extra apartments to a permitted development of 114 units at Dermot O'Hurley Avenue, Irishtown, Dublin 4 where the developers wanted to add penthouse levels to two blocks. However, the developers were successful in getting planning permission for two infill apartments in another block. The proposal - to increase the height of two blocks to accommodate the extra apartments - was opposed by Stella Gardens Residents Committee, Fitzwilliam Quay Management Company and the Health Service Executive (HSE).
An article on February 2nd referred to Percy Podger and a group called Friends of the Curragh Environment. Percy Podger would like to point out that he does not head this organisation.
