Planning & Development

A selective guide to developments in your area

AN BORD PLEANÁLA

Appeals

Location: South Bank Road, Ringsend, Dublin 4. Proposed development: mixed-use scheme of 16 blocks with 783 apartments, offices and retail, associated landscaping, car-parking and all site works. Applicant: Fabrizia Developments. Appellant(s): Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association, Maurice W Bryan (conservation officer), Catherine Cavendish and others, South Wharf Plc, Fabrizia Developments, Norman T J Spendlove, John Gormley TD and others, Bath Avenue and District Residents Association, Damien F Cassidy.

Location: Sandymount Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin 4. Proposed development: 44 residential units with car-parking, new access, landscape work and site development works. Applicant: Bryan Cullen. Appellant(s): Vincent and Mary Ryan, Steen Byrne, Concerned Residents of Sandymount.

Location: 127, 129 and 131 and rear of 133 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish showroom for a mixed-use scheme with site works. Applicant: Glencullen Developments. Appellant(s): Sarah Galligan, Michael Kelly Rathmines Initiative.

Location: Industrial Yarns site, Dublin Road, Bray, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: 305 residential units with all associated works. Applicant: Pizzaro Development Ltd. Appellant(s): Lorraine and Brian McGrath.

Location: Ballymany House, Newbridge Road, M7, Newbridge, Co Kildare. Proposed development: headquarters building, site works and closure of access, new access and infrastructure. Applicant: Horse Racing Ireland. Appellant(s): Friends of the Curragh Environment Ltd and James Smyth, Horse Racing Ireland Ltd.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: 23-25 Grantham Street, frontage on Synge Street and Grantham Place, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish structures on site for a three-storey with part four-storey building comprising a retail unit, 28 apartments with 28 car-parking spaces, 32 cycle spaces and all associated site works. Applicant: Donal and Marie O'Sullivan (with revised conditions).

Location: Ballywattrim Grove, Killarney Road, Bray, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: demolish house and construct 72 dwelling units with car-parking, landscaping and ancillary works. Applicant: Lily Trust and McInerney Homes Ltd (with conditions).

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: Castle Park School (protected structure), Castle Park Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 81 homes with associated works. Applicant: Castle Park School.

Location: Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle, Co Roscommon. Proposed development: eco-tourism development of 199 two-storey holiday cottages, golf course, clubhouse and ancillary works. Applicant: Newfound Consortium.

Location: Doon Shore, Tawnytaskin (Lough Key), Co Roscommon. Proposed development: demolish eight holiday homes, integrated tourist development consisting of 72 holiday houses, restaurant, leisure and conference centre and associated works. Applicant: Dalgate Court Ltd.

Location: Kilkea Castle (protected structure), Kilkea Demesne, Castledermot, Co Kildare. Proposed development: two-storey extension to hotel comprising 31 bedrooms, four suites with car-parking and site development works. Applicant: Arnosford Ltd.

SOUTH DUBLIN

Applications

Location: Edmondstown Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Proposed development: demolish commercial units for block of four and block of five four-bedroom apartments with underground car-parking and modifications to entrance and all site works. Applicant: H & N Kearns.

Location: Glencarraig Nursing Home, Glencarraig Court, Glencarraig, Firhouse, Dublin 24. Proposed development: single storey extension to nursing home with 15 additional bedrooms, extended diningroom and kitchen, new oratory, new entrance with reception, offices and lobby to the front of building. Demolish part of building to the side and all associated site works. Applicant: Nucare Company Ltd (t/a Glencarraig Nursing Home).

Location: 32 Main Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: demolish bungalow and shed for four two-storey three-bedroom terraced houses with car-parking and all site development works and associated services. Applicant: Anne and Marianne Kennedy.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: Raheen House and Raheen Cottage, Old Nangor Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Proposed development: demolish two dwelling houses and all associated outbuildings, redevelop residential site by relocating site access from public road and erect of 18 two-bedroom apartments units in two three-storey blocks with 26 car-parking spaces and all associated site works. Applicant: Bridget Nolan and Niall Nolan.

Location: Loreto Abbey, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Proposed development: change of part of building known as Block M (protected structure) from office use to crèche, external play area. Applicant: Oze Construction.

FINGAL

Applications

Location: temporary water treatment plant, Swords Road, Malahide, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish water treatment plant for a three-storey apartment block of 22 two-bedroom units with crèche all over basement car-parking for 50 cars and all associated site works. Applicant: Karina Daly.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: lands to the west of the Ratoath Road in the townland of Bay, Co Dublin. Proposed development: retail warehouse scheme of 13,973sq m (150,404sq ft) with a DIY unit to include an outdoor garden centre, 10 retail warehouse units, 718 surface car-parking spaces and all associated site development and landscape works. Applicant: Ridgevarn Ltd.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: 150, 151 and 152 Howth Road, Sutton, Dublin 13. Proposed development: demolish three houses and outbuildings for 12 two-storey semi-detached houses with car-parking, site development works and landscaping. Applicant: Paddy Doyle.

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL

Applications

Location: 30-32 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin2. Proposed development: demolish three outbuildings and rearmost one-third of two-storey warehouse/office building. Replace roof tiles on part of retained portion of warehouse/office building with glazing. Repair outer walls, roof trusses and roof tiling of retained portion. Change of use of rear and west side of ground floor of retained building and remove first floor over to form atrium access to new apartment development. Remove partitions and replace with revised partitions and change of use of front section of retained warehouse/office building to offices. Develop 90 apartments in three blocks of eight storeys with basement car-parking and site development works. Applicant: Princus Investment Trust.

Location: 18 Rathfarnham Road, Dublin 6W. Proposed development: mixed-use scheme of 95 apartments, retail and office space in seven blocks with 127 car-parking spaces and 95 cycle spaces. Applicant: Verdon Hall Ltd.

Location: 20 Creighton Street and 1-2 Hanover Street East, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish structures on site for a mixed-use development of five storeys of residential (18 two-bedroom and five three-bedroom apartments) over three retail units with basement car-parking for 19 cars and 23 cycle spaces. Applicant: Geraldine Cantrell.

Location: Dublin Zoological Gardens, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8. Proposed development: new elephant exhibit including two concrete-lined animal pools, one water storage tank, two viewing shelters, covered viewing amphitheatre, pathways, appropriate fencing to circumference and all associated site works. Applicant: Zoological Society of Ireland.

Location: Gaiety Theatre, King Street South, Dublin 2. Proposed development: new flytower and flying system to the rear to comprise of the demolition of the smoke lantery, flytower with grid flying system and galleries over the stage, three stairways within the backstage area, all replaced with a 26.7-metre flytower incorporating smoke lantery, galleries over stage level, new internal access stairs to dressingroom and upgrading of orchestra pit under stage. Applicant: John Costigan, Gaiety Theatre.

Location: 11A & 12 Arbour Place, Arbour Hill, Dublin 7. Proposed development: demolish two houses for a two and three-storey apartment building with seven one-bedroom apartments, one one-bedroom duplex and three two-bedroom apartments. Applicant: Cathal Durnin.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Islandbridge Gate Lodge (protected structure), Island Bridge Entrance, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8. Proposed development: conservation and refurbishment of gate lodge. Underpin subsiding front wall, new bathroom and kitchen at ground floor level, new bathroom at first floor level, repair and refurbish internal and external fabric of structure including roofing, internal and external walls, repair and refurbish boundary walls, fence and gates, and reinstate landscaping. Applicant: The Commissioners of Public Works.

Location: 18 and 19 Lincoln Place, Dublin 2. Proposed development: change of use of ground floor basement at 19 Lincoln Place from retail to public house, remove bar counter to 18 Lincoln Place, remove suspended ceiling to 18 and 19 Lincoln Place, provision of new internal openings between 18 and 19 Lincoln Place, new bar counter and behind bar display, alteration of external opening for fire escape to the laneway beside 19 Lincoln Place with new internal steps, elevational alterations to include a new shop front to number 19 to match the original and refurbish elevation to 18 Lincoln Place, and the conservation and repair of existing historical features. Applicant: Sharmane Ltd.

Location: 84 King Street North, through to 61-65 North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7. Proposed development: demolish single and two-storey buildings for four to six-storey blocks in a mixed-use co-operative development with 44 apartments (20 one-bed, 21 two-bed and three three-bed units), retail/office unit, management office and all associated site works. Applicant: NABCo Society.

DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Santa Maria (protected structure), 13 Cunningham Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 24 dwellings (15 houses and nine apartments) with 45 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site development works to include the demolition of rear garden wall and replace with two-metre high wall and boundary wall. Applicant: Otranto Properties Ltd.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: An Tearmann, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18 (rear of Swynnerton and Dunboy). Proposed development: outline permission for six two-storey detached houses and associated site development works with access through adjoining lands at Brighton Place and by way of the proposed development to the rear of Swynnerton and Dunboy (planning permission granted under Reg Ref D05A/0135). Applicant: Marie Mullaney.