A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
APPEALS
Location: junction of Charlemont Road, 27-28 Victoria Villas, Clontarf, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish dwellings for 19 dwellings in one three-storey block and all associated site works. Applicant: Paul Dufficy & Co Ltd. Appellant(s): Aidan and Aisling Comerford.
Location: Skylon Hotel, Drumcondra Road Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. Proposed development: part demolish hotel and external buildings for a four-storey extension and all associated works. Applicant: Babodana Ltd. Appellant(s): Denis and Maureen Dunne, Rose Collins, Raymond and Triona Fahy, John Dolan, Peter and Mary Jo Hanlon.
Location: Blanchardstown Centre, Coolmine, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. Proposed development: 200-bed hotel and 208-unit aparthotel, all comprising 17 storeys. Applicant: Green Property Ltd. Appellant(s): Leo Varadkar, Green Property Ltd, Pauline and David Coffey.
Location: Athenry, Co Galway. Proposed development: mixed-use scheme with residential, retail, office, hotel, restaurant, public house and childcare uses, car-parking and other associated developments. Applicant: Oyster Homes Ltd. Appellant(s): The Western Regional Fisheries Board, Dominic Monaghan, Vincent Shields.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Lehenagh Beg, Lehenagh More, Pouladuff, Togher, Co Cork. Proposed development: 554 residential units, a crèche, retail unit, car-parking, new access, landscaping and all associated site works. Applicant: Ruden Homes Ltd (with conditions).
Location: Riada House, 1 College Green, Dublin 2. Proposed development: revisions to Reg Ref 0639/03 to provide coffee shop incorporating food and beverage sales for consumption on and off the premises, signage and associated site development works. Applicant: Treasury C.M.B.S. Limited (with conditions).
Location: Galway Ryan Hotel, Dublin Road, Galway. Proposed development: three-storey 80-bedroom extension to hotel with ground and basement level car-parking, extension and alterations to leisure centre. Applicant: MPP Fitzgerald Ltd (with revised conditions).
Location: Lower Turnings, Straffan Park House, Straffan, Co Kildare. Proposed development: house (steward's lodge). Applicant: Frank O'Malley (with conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Stillorgan Bowl Leisureplex, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: mixed-use development of 314 residential units, retail units, offices, recreation, library, a crèche, 528 car-parking spaces and all associated site works. Applicant: Stillorgan Enterprises Ltd.
Location: Monivea Road, Galway. Proposed development: demolish structures for a three-storey plus penthouse block and three-storey block all over basement accommodating 64 apartments, five penthouses, three retail units and all associated works. Applicant: Paddy Cravan and others.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
APPLICATIONS
Location: formerly Pat O'Donnell & Co premises at Richmond Avenue, including 18 and 20 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin 3. Proposed development: permission to demolish buildings to include 18 and 20 Richmond Avenue and offices, storage sheds, workshops, ancillary buildings and construct a mixed-use residential/commercial development of 131 apartments, offices, leisure facility and retail in four blocks with 141 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Apex Estates Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 122-126 Richmond Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish three two-storey terraced houses at 122, 124 and 126 Richmond Road for 15 apartments in two blocks with underground car-parking for 16 cars. Block A, facing Richmond Road, will consist of three one-bedroom apartments, three two-bedroom apartments and two three-bedroom apartments, and will be a three-storey building over a basement car-park. Block B will include three one-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom apartments and will be a four-storey building over basement car-park with a landscaped courtyard garden between Block A and Block B, a landscaped garden to the rear of the site and provision for a riverside walk. Applicant: John Collins and Louise Murray.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Hedigan's, The Brian Boru House, 4-5 Prospect Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11. Proposed development: demolish public house for a mixed-use development comprising a public house with an outdoor terrace at ground floor level, media and associated uses at ground and first floor level, 57 residential units to include nine three-bedroom two-storey duplex units, four three-bedroom apartments, one two-bedroom duplex unit, 39 two-bedroom apartments and four one-bedroom apartments with 88 car-parking spaces at basement level. Applicant: Michael Hedigan & Hedigans Ltd.
FINGAL
APPLICATION
Location: Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel, Santry Demesne, Santry, Dublin 9. Proposed development: extension to the existing Crowne Plaza Hotel to create additional restaurant/bar adjacent to the rear courtyard. Applicant: Tifco Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Naul Road (Clonard Road), Clogheder, Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish single storey four-bedroom bungalow and garage and three outbuildings and erect eight one-bedroom and four two-bedroom apartments (total 12 apartments) in two two-storey blocks with surface car-parking and associated site works. Applicant: Aidan and Eileen Lacey.
Location: Kettles Lane, Cloghran, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and garage and construct 16 two-bedroom apartments and three three-bedroom duplex apartments in three two/three-storey blocks over basement car-park accommodating 40 car-parking spaces and all associated site works on previously approved site Reg Ref F04A/1009. Applicant: John & Marion Hackett.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: New Ongar Road, Castlefield Court Estate, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Proposed development: 185 residential units (103 two, three and four-bedroom terraced, semi-detached and detached houses, 19 three-bedroom duplex units and 63 one, two and three-bedroom apartments) all in a two, three and four-storey development with 295 associated car-parking spaces, open space areas and site works. Applicant: La Vista Ltd and EP Lynam Properties Ltd.
SOUTH DUBLIN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: lands at Fitzmaurice Road and N7, Rathcoole, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish single storey storage structure for a three-storey mixed-use building including retail at ground floor, restaurant, kitchen, staff areas and ancillary functions at first floor and office and plant room at second floor, a 307sq m (3,305sq ft) exhibition space is proposed over ground and first floor levels. The development also includes a service yard to the north of the building, a landscaped courtyard to the south and farmers market area to the west, 230 surface car-parking spaces and associated landscaping. Applicant: Avoca Handweavers Ltd.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
APPLICATIONS
Location: Danesmoate Demesne, Kellystown Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Proposed development: replacement of eastern boundary wall with new wall stone faced on public side (Kellystown Road) and rendered on inside at Danesmoate (protected structure). Previous planning Reg Ref D02A/0957 and D05A/0121. Applicant: A Clayton.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: lands off Woodside Road/Blackglen Road, Balally and Tecknock, Sandyford, Dublin 18 (Sandyford Spa Resort). Proposed development: five-storey over three-storey part-basement garden spa resort comprising 14 spa treatment rooms, hydrotherapy facilities (including a 25-metre swimming pool, a recreational pool, a range of hydrotherapy pools, changing facilities and spa-related treatment areas). The resort will provide hotel accommodation of 250 bedrooms and 35 apart-hotel suites; a conference centre with banqueting areas, one restaurant, three cafés/bars, seven meeting rooms, administrative offices and staff facilities. The development will also consist of the demolition of derelict farmhouse and outbuildings and provide a single storey hostel with café. Provision of 443 car-parking spaces, landscaping and associated site development works. Applicant: Caspian Country Investments Ltd.
DUN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
APPLICATIONS
Location: Danesmoate Demesne, Kellystown Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Proposed development: revisions to the "Folly" as previously approved under Reg Ref D05A/0121. The works will consist of an increase in the overall length of some 772mm and the overall width by some 400mm; alteration of the north elevation from square recessed panel with portico-style surround to an arched opening with glazed sash window; replacement of part of the fenced railing with stone wall. This application relates to development, which would comprise the carrying out of works to a protected structure (Danesmoate House). Applicant: A Clayton.
Location: Units 1-6, Dún Laoghaire Industrial Estate, Pottery Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish office and industrial buildings for a single storey discount food store with 167 car-parking spaces and associated site works. Applicant: Lidl Ireland.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 57 Castlepark Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: three-storey residential development comprising 12 apartments (10 two-bedroom units and two three-bedroom units), all with private terraces and a private communal garden space, 18 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site development works. Applicant: Tuskar Property Holding Ltd.
Location: The Millhouse, 1 Lower Kilmacud Road, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish public house for a new building of two storeys of basement under ground floor and upper levels ranging from five to seven storeys containing a public house, five retail units and two levels of basement car-parking containing 141 car-parking spaces, 62 two-bedroom apartments, 14 one-bedroom apartments and two three-bedroom penthouses. Applicant: Panther Catering Ltd.
