A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
Appeals
Location: Smyth's Pub, 128 George's Street Lower, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: refurbish front portion of Smyth's Pub (protected structure), and demolish rear structures for 12 residential units in a four-storey block with all ancillary works. Applicant: KBK Properties Ltd. Appellant(s): Francis and Mary Lennon.
Location: Churchtown Road Upper, Churchtown, Dublin 14. Proposed development: 298 residential units, retain and refurbish Fernbank House (protected structure) as a crèche and all associated works. Applicant: Park Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Randall Robertson, Churchtown Residents Association, Robert and Oonagh Fox, Michael Gannon, Finsbury Park Residents Association, Michael Colreavy and Judith Meehan, David Allen and others.
Location: Castle Annaghs, Annaghs, Ross, Co Kilkenny (protected structure). Proposed development: change of use of four-storey house and farmyard structure to provide hotel accommodation, including bar and restaurant, public bar and golf clubhouse. Two and three-storey structures to provide 83 apartments for hotel accommodation. Eighteen-hole golf course. Two-storey nursing home and 212 single storey houses, 30 two-storey houses for permanent residence, site entrance and site access roads with car-parking areas. Applicant: Catanga Ltd. Appellant(s): Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Location: University Hall (Hatch Hall), Hatch Street Lower, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish building, refurbish university hall and change its use from residential/educational to hotel use and all associated site development works. Applicant: Edward Holdings Ltd. Appellant(s): P Carberry, John Coffey.
Location: former Fodhla printing company premises, the Print Works, Brookfield Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. Proposed development: 11 dwellings and office blocks with car-parking, landscaping and site development works. Applicant: David Patton & Sons (NI) Ltd. Appellant(s): Eoghan Daltun and Guiliana Masetti.
Location: site formerly known as the Goose Tavern car-park at the junction of Calderwood Road and Sion Hill Road, off Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. Proposed development: three-storey extension block over basement to consist of 14 apartments, a commercial unit with basement car-parking and all associated site works. Applicant: Robbie O'Brien. Appellant(s): Breda Carroll and Donal Carroll, All Hallows Area Association, John and Mairead Hennessy, Con Coakley.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: on two sites at "Avondale" and "The Oaks", Porterstown Road, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Proposed development: infill residential development. Demolish house and outbuildings for 20 apartments and associated site works. Applicant: Kieran Rudden (with same conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 48-56 Cork Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: change of use from office use to residential at upper floor level and retail at ground level and provide additional 15 residential units. Applicant: OZE Construction.
Location: 648 South Circular Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish ESSO garage and outbuildings for 15 residential units and retail unit in two/three/four-storey blocks with car-parking and associated works. Applicant: Edward and Vincent Thornton.
FINGAL
Applications
Location: Chapel Road, Old Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 56-bay floodlit golf driving range in a two-storey building with a 100-space car-park, site landscaping and development works. Applicant: LNC Leisure Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: junction of the Old Ballymun Road and Santry Avenue, Ballymun, Dublin 9. Proposed development: five-storey residential building of 22 apartments with 25 car-parking spaces, site development works and landscaping. Applicant: Albert Wooldridge.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Turvey Avenue, adjacent to Donabate Train Station, Donabate, Co Dublin. Proposed development: mixed-use development to include the creation of a civic square onto which fronts four retail units, a public library, public bar, four duplex units and a restaurant at second floor level, two street level commercial units, and two street level retail units. The residential content of the development includes 24 apartments. Total of 108 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Shelman Properties Ltd.
Location: townlands of Ballymun at St Annes, Cloghran, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: temporary permission for five years for surface car-park of 4,157 spaces, a security hut/office, seven bus shelters, site development and landscaping works. Applicant: Metropark Ltd.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
Applications
Location: 60/61 Stepaside Hill/Lane, Stepaside, Co Dublin (formerly known as Cois Cnoic and Innisfree). Proposed development: demolish four houses for residential/commercial development of 52 one, two and three-bedroom apartments and two retail/commercial units in three blocks with underground and surface car-parking, associated site development and landscaping works. Applicant: Durkan New Homes Ltd.
Location: Ballinteer Service Station, Ballinteer, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish service station for a four-storey apartment building of 26 apartments (six one-beds, 16 two-beds and four three-beds) with basement car-parking for 30 cars. Applicant: Terry Sweeney.
Location: site of 0.93 hectares at Ballyogan Road, Carrickmines, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish dwellings and outbuildings for 123 apartments in four interconnected blocks ranging from three to six storeys over basement car-parking for 185 cars and 140 cycle spaces. Applicant: Durkan New Homes.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Harold's Grange Road, Dublin 18. Proposed development: affordable housing development of 97 apartments (72 two-beds and 25 one-beds) in a single five-storey block with 106 car-parking spaces, associated site works and landscaping. Applicant: Woodbridge Developments Ltd.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Applications
Location: 169 Killester Avenue, Killester, Dublin 5. Proposed development: demolish derelict house and sheds for 24 apartments in three semi-detached blocks and two terraced blocks with four off-street and 26 on-street parking spaces plus landscaping and associated works. Applicant: Eric Whelan.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Sandymount Castle Park, Gilford Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4. Proposed development: 57 residential units (50 apartments and seven houses) within three three- and four-storey blocks. Provision of 64 car-parking spaces at basement level and three spaces at surface level. The development also includes the demolition of a house. Applicant: Bryan Cullen.
Location: The Village Inn, Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish pub and six apartments fort a five-storey building of 10 apartments (six two-beds and four one-beds) with bar, off licence and all associated works. Applicant: Maltonworth Ltd.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Applications
Location: lands to the west of Kilmashogue Bridge, Whitechurch Road, Dublin 16. Proposed development: demolish house and outbuildings for 42 dwellings, landscaped public open spaces and site development works. Applicant: Javana Ltd.
