Planning & Development

A selective guide to planning in your area

An Bord Pleanála

APPEALS

Location:Yellow Car Park, Blanchardstown Centre, Coolmine, Dublin 15. Proposed development: three-storey development with retail and restaurant use and site works. Applicant: Green Property Ltd. Appellant(s): Leisureplex Blanchardstown, Green Property Ltd, Ben Dunne

Location:Swan shopping centre, 250 Lower Rathmines Road, Castlewood Avenue, Dublin 6. Proposed development: three-screen cinema with 571 seats at second and third levels and site works. Applicant: Sawbridge Ltd. Appellant(s): RAB, Management Ltd.

Location:site at south-west corner of Shaw Street and Townsend Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish buildings for office and retail scheme. Applicant: Shaw Street Developments. Appellant(s): Iarnród Éireann, Hugh Quigley, Rita Prendergast, Shaw Street Developments.

Location:11a Grantham Place and site to rear, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish entrance. Erect eight residential units and site works. Applicant: R Payne, B Flannery and L Crowe. Appellant(s): Kieran Finnerty.

Location:1-5 Camden Street Upper, 49-51 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2 (protected structure). Proposed development: 29 apartments, gallery, office space and site works. Applicant: R Payne, B Flannery and L Crowe. Appellant(s): Kieran Finnerty.

Location:Old Nangor Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Proposed development: national resource centre, 87 apartments, 25 houses and associated site works. Applicant: Association for Spina Bifida and Hydorcephalus. Appellant(s): Central Remedial Clinic.

Location:junction of Malahide Road and Marino Road incorporating 70, 72 74 Malahide Road and 1, 2, 3 and 4 Marino Avenue, Dublin 3. Proposed development: 17 apartments, public bar/public house, off-licence, café/shop, office use and site works. Applicant: Mark and Paddy Grainger. Appellant(s): David Green and Miriam OFlynn.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location:Rosemount Cottage, Dundrum Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish house for seven apartments with site works. Applicant: Fergal and Geraldine McDonnell (with revised conditions).

Location:Drumnigh, Drumnigh Road, Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 208 units, parking and site works. Applicant: Shannon Homes (Dublin) Ltd (with conditions).

Location:Delvin Road, Pettitswood, Mullingar, Co Westmeath. Proposed development: 30 residential units, neighbourhood centre, 379 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Daracom Ltd (with conditions).

Location:former Shell station, Victoria Road, Church Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: 30 apartments, four retail units and site works. Applicant: The Terry Partnership (with revised conditions).

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location:Ballymore Eustace East, Ballymore Eustace, Co Kildare. Proposed development: 72 dwellings, community building, crèche and site works. Applicant: Armston Properties Ltd.

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown

APPLICATIONS

Location:Harolds Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Proposed development: demolish four dwellings, three outbuildings and stables on lands known as Deerfield and Grange Hill for 301 apartments, crèche, neighbourhood shop, café, 418 car-parking spaces, and site works. Applicant: Rod McGovern.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location:Ashwood Farm, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18.. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and outbuildings for 201 units (147 apartments in three six-storey blocks, and 54 three-storey houses), crèche, 294 car-parking spaces, and site works. Applicant: Glenamuck Developments Ltd.

Dublin City Council

APPLICATIONS

Location:site of 0.28 acres to rear of Russell Court Hotel (protected structure), 21-25 Harcourt Street, 3, 4 5 Camden Place and adjoining site to rear of 26 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: three-storey building over basement levels at 3, 4 5 Camden Place which will be linked to rear of modern extension at rear of Russell Court Hotel. Demolish two-storey dwelling at rear of 26 Harcourt Street and rebuild to two storeys connecting into the rear of the hotel. Reception area, banqueting hall, service areas, store rooms, kitchen, 20 guest bedrooms, lounge, underground car-parking at second and third basement levels (38 spaces in total). Works to modern extension to rear of Russell Court Hotel: extend banquet hall and service lift; stairs and pantry at ground floor level (to be extended into new build at rear of 26 Harcourt Street); and two private lounges, one guest bedroom and a lounge/diningroom at first floor level and new link connecting same to proposed four-storey block at rear of 3, 4 5 Camden Place. Applicant: Triglen Holdings Ltd.

Location:rear of 19-22 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 and bounded by Aungier Street, unnamed lane adjacent to Glovers Court and Bow Lane East, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish warehouses (except for one gable wall on the south-west corner which is to be incorporated into the development) for a nine-storey hotel of 232 en suite bedrooms, restaurant/bar, reception, foyer, parking and site works. Applicant: Fanagan Funeral Directors and Robert Lyne.

Location:site at Baggot Street Upper to north (including 27-33 Baggot Street Upper) and Flemings Place to south (including Flemings House) and Durrow Mews, 16 Fleming Place, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish structures on site for a building of five to eight storeys with office space at lower ground floor level with two entrances, lobby and reception areas. A central atrium links the two service cores and reception areas at upper ground floor level with office space to the east. Gym for remainder of the upper ground floor. Office space is distributed from lower ground floor level to seventh floor level; 125 car-parking spaces, and site works. Applicant: Pewley CMBS (Propco) Ltd.

Location:3 OConnell Street Upper, Dublin 1. Proposed development: replace shop front, fascia and pilasters with new white limestone. Replace ground floor retail display windows and entrance doors with frameless structural glass and stainless steel framed glass doors. Replace access door to upper floor with new door in line with shopfront. Replace roleshutter with new modern visi-screen powdercoated rolershutter. Replace awning with motorised awning. Replace footpath mosaic tiles with stone pavement matching adjacent footpath. Applicant: McDowell Company Ltd.

Location:Barrys Hotel, 1 Denmark Street Great, Dublin 1 (protected structure). Proposed development: demolish function/club and associated rooms of a single storey split level structure in back garden and change use from approved four-storey building to six floors overall of education use incorporating basement toilets, stores, kitchen, ground floor canteen/diningroom with service access from Frederick Court and single storey glazed link through garden to Barry's Hotel. Restoration works: remove first floor partitions to front to expose and repair Rococo ceilings providing two conference rooms; replace the front windows of hotel with original style timber up and down sash; replace staircases at upper level to original position; remove Wavin downpipe from front first floor; and site works. Applicant: Ted Fahy.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location:10, 11, 12, 12A, 13, 14, 15, 16, 16A, Eastmoreland Lane, Dublin 4. Proposed development: three-storey structure with 11 hotel suites (two one-bed and nine two-bed) all with reception rooms and one hotel bedroom. Demolish dwellings at 12, 12A, 13, 14, 15 16 Eastmoreland Lane and redevelop sites at 10 and 11 Eastmoreland Lane. Reinstatement or remodelled two-storey façade with pitched roof, street railings, lamp standards; landscaping and site works. Applicant: Dylan Hotel Ltd.

Location:7 8 Thomas Street West, rear of 10-13 Thomas Street West, 1 Crane Street and Vat House, 7 Crane Street, Dublin 8 (protected structure). Proposed development: 7,928sq m (85,336sq ft) of offices, 912.5sq m (9,822sq ft) of retail, 439sq m (4,725sq ft) of bar/public house and three two-bed duplex apartments - overall floor area of 9,911sq m (106,681sq ft). Thomas Street West frontage comprises: change of use of three-storey structures at 1 Crane Street and 7 and 8 Thomas Street West (protected structures) from shop and financial services to retail use at ground floor and residential use at first and second floor. Refurbish these structures to include restoration to their original plan form, removal of later partitions, temporary supporting steel frame, replace dangerous roof, clean and repoint brickwork, extension at second floor level and new opening at Crane Street. Three two-bed duplex apartments for upper levels of 1 Crane Street and 7 8 Thomas Street West. Demolish three-storey warehouse bounding Vat House 7 and store rooms associated with 10-13 Thomas Street (protected structures) and change of use of Vat House 7 on Crane Street from industrial/warehouse to office, retail and bar use. The development of Vat House 7 will comprise three retail units, a bar/public house, four retail units and office space (conference rooms) at ground floor level. Four floors of office space within the building and three new levels of office space onto the building. The development will be eight storeys and include refurbishment of the overhead walkway link to the Hop Store on Rainsfort Street. Applicant: Manor Park Homebuilders Ltd.

Location:site at Oscar Traynor Road, Clonshaugh Road, Kilmore Road, Cromcastle Road, Cromcastle Park, Kilbarron Road, Barrycourt Road and Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, Dublin 17. Proposed development: 10-year permission for new "Northside Town Centre" comprising retail, office, residential, restaurant, bar, crèche, community and recreational development over two phases on a 30.28-hectare site. Phase one: demolish all buildings on phase one site for a retail centre, pool and leisure centre, library and community centre, sports changing facility, single storey pigeon club, five-storey medical centre, two-storey crèche, community building, management office, one retail unit, 940 apartments and duplex units in two, three, four, five, six and seven-storey courtyards and including 30 sheltered units in a three-storey development in the grounds of Woodville House (protected structure). Provision of 2,340 basement level car-parking spaces. Phase two: demolish Northside shopping centre for retail space; cinema and family entertainment centre (10 screens); 16-storey office tower; 400 apartments in three, four, five and six-storey courtyards; crèche; new pedestrian high street with lifts and stairs to basement car-parking; 954 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: N1 Property Developments Ltd.

South Dublin

APPLICATIONS

Location:lands bounded by Tymon North Distributor Road, Old Blessington Road and residential estate at Balrothery, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: 34 apartments in four blocks from two to four storeys with site works. Applicant: Maplewood Developments.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location:Old Ballymount Road and Forest Close, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: demolish two houses for 25 residential units arranged in two blocks (10 two-beds and 15 three-beds); 40 surface car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Glan Developments Ltd.

Fingal

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location:Coyote Saloon Public House, Old Road, Hayestown, Rush, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish pub for five four-bed detached dwellings and site works. Applicant: Garreth Peters.