A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
APPEALS
Location: site formerly known as the Jennings lands, off Woodside Road/Ballyglen Road (R113) in the townlands of Balally and Ticknock, Sandyford, Dublin 18. Proposed development: garden spa resort. Applicant: Caspain Country Investments Ltd. Appellant(s): Ruth Blackith.
Location: 9-12 Haddington Terrace, corner of Adelaide Street, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish 20th century extension for a new extension and refurbish 19th century protected structure of the Kingston Hotel and Peekers (protected structure). Applicant: Grand Liquer Ltd. Appellant(s): Adelaide St Residents, Grand Liquer Ltd.
Location: junction of Charlemount Road, 27-28 Victoria Villas, Clontarf, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish dwellings for 19 dwellings in three-storey block with associated works. Applicant: Paul Dufficy & Co. Appellant(s): Alan and Siobhan Foley, John Cullen and others.
Location: Dermot O'Hurley Avenue, Irishtown Road and Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 4. Proposed development: 15 apartments in extension to already approved development under (reg ref 4312/03) and all associated works. Applicant: David and Susan Jenkins and McInerney Homes Ltd. Appellant(s): Fitzwilliam Quay Management Ltd.
Location: 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Proposed development: renovate public house, demolish rear return and construct seven-storey block to include seven apartments. Applicant: J P Birmingham. Appellant(s): Liam Lonergan.
Location: Kilkea Castle (protected structure), Kilkea Demesne, Castledermot, Co Kildare. Proposed development: two-storey extension to hotel with 31 bedrooms, four suites with car-parking area and site works. Applicant: Arnosford Ltd. Appellant(s): Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Location: 4 Harold's Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Proposed development: 15 apartments in two blocks with basement car-parking. Applicant: Brian Kavanagh and Mary Taffe. Appellant(s): Patrick Mulhall.
Location: Rathcoran House (protected structure), Baltinglass, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: 61 residential units. Applicant: Eamon Coleman. Appellant(s): Baltinglass Residents Association, Eamon Coleman, Kathleen Clerkin.
Location: Lynch Green Isle Hotel, Clondalkin, Co Dublin. Proposed development: alterations and extension to hotel. Applicant: South Adventure Ltd. Appellant(s): F Moore and others.
Location: Larass, Strandhill, Co Sligo. Proposed development: 124 residential units, crèche with car-parking and site works. Applicant: T Connelly, S Cassidy and S McGuinness. Appellant(s): An Taisce, Stephen Rundle, Frank Martyn, Strandhill Community Development Association.
Location: Athenry, Co Galway. Proposed development: mixed-use development with residential, retail, office, hotel, restaurant, public house and childcare uses with car-parking and other associated developments. Applicant: Oyster Homes Ltd. Appellant(s): Western Regional Fisheries Board, Dominic Monaghan, Vincent Shields.
Location: Lismore Demesne, Crossdoney, Co Cavan. Proposed development: three blocks comprising retail/commercial units, 16 apartments and 12 townhouses. Applicant: Hugh Lennon. Appellant(s): Gordon Keith and others.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 35-39 Usher's Quay and 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Usher Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: mixed-use development of varying heights with 84 apartments and office building. Demolish three-storey office building known as Olaf House, numbers 35-37 Usher's Quay, two-storey factory and single-storey annex to the rear, formerly known as Byrne's Lifts number 38/39 Usher's Quay, single-storey factory at numbers 9/10 Usher Street, disused garage at 5 Usher Street, formerly known as Abbey Garage, two three-storey derelict houses at 7/8 Usher Street including outhouses. Construct a five-storey office building fronting onto Usher's Quay and stepping down to four storeys at rear with basement car-parking for 105 cars. Applicant: P Elliott & Co Ltd (with conditions).
Location: Maywood Grove/rear of Old Sheiling Hotel, Raheny, Dublin 5. Proposed development: three-storey apartment scheme over basement car-park with 30 apartments, roof garden and site works (protected structure). Applicant: McGettigan Ltd (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Old Tramyard site, 15 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish warehouses and associated buildings for 28 apartments, four commercial units, car-parking and associated site developments (protected structure). Applicant: Arkleton Ltd.
Location: Church Road, East Wall Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: six-storey over basement mixed-use development with 43 apartments and ground floor retail unit. Applicant: Aldi Stores Ltd.
Location: Balgaddy Town/District Centre, Cappagh, Upper Cross, Co Dublin. Proposed development: mixed-use residential, retail, commercial and office development to include a hotel, bar/restaurant, gym, cineplex, crèche, bar, car-parking, pedestrian main street and ancillary works. Applicant: Everglade Properties Ltd.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Location: Temple Manor Avenue, off Limekiln Farm and St Peter's School, Greenhills, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish three-storey school building for 30 dwellings in five blocks. Block A: three storeys with five apartments. Block B: four storeys with seven apartments. Block C: four storeys with seven apartments. Block D: nine three-storey terrace houses. Block E: four storeys with two four-bedroom houses. Provision of 44 car-parking spaces at basement level. Applicant: Promster Developments Ltd.
FINGAL
Location: Turnapin Great, Swords Road (Old Airport Road), Santry, Co Dublin. Proposed development: continuation of use of an at grade car-park with 3,500 car-parking spaces together with associated entry/exit control facilities, but shelters, hard-standing for service vehicles, biocycle waste-water treatment control building with staff facilities, site access to Swords Road (Old Airport Road) via signalled control junction with turning lanes and directional signs permitted under planning permission F02A/1110. Applicant: Gannon Homes Ltd.
Location: Glenmore Guesthouse, Swords Road, Nevinstown, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: change of use of 31-bedroom guesthouse to use as a 31-bedroom hotel, outdoor cold and dry storerooms to the rear of kitchen. Applicant: Jim and Rebecca Gibney.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Ailiach, Blakestown Road, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Proposed development: two two-storey apartment blocks. Block A: two one-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom apartments. Block B: four two-bedroom apartments. Provision of 15 car-parking spaces and associated site works. Applicant: Paul Dormer.
Location: 3 Drynam Rise, Drynam Hall, Kinsealy, Co Dublin. Proposed development: change of use from residential to crèche use of part of semi-detached two-storey dwelling with new single-storey extension to side, internal alterations and associated works. Applicant: Heidi Keegan.
Location: 14 (An Grianan) & 14a (The Pines), Warrenhouse Road, Baldoyle, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish two dwellings for 19 residential units in an L-shaped three-storey block comprising eight three-bedroom two-storey duplex units, six two-bedroom apartments and five one-bedroom apartments, with 29 surface car-parking spaces and associated site works. Applicant: Fergus Costello and Eamon Nolan.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Rosalgo, Church Road, Killiney, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish single-storey dwelling for two two-storey dwellings. Applicant: Mike Ormond.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Ardbrugh Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 18 apartments (15 two-bedroom units and three three-bedroom units) all within one six-storey block with communal and private roof gardens, 20 surface level car-parking spaces, gym, associated site development and landscaping works. Applicant: Marie Conlon.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: The Village Inn, TyrconnellRoad, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish two-storey building comprising a ground floor pub and six studio apartments at first-floor level and construct new part three-storey, part four-storey building including penthouse over basement consisting in total of 12 apartments (three two-bedroom duplex units, eight one-bedroom apartments and one two-bedroom penthouse apartment), ground floor bar and off-licence, entrance to basement lounge and new basement lounge store and toilets. Applicant: Maltonworth Ltd.
Location: 23 Ailesbury Road (protected structure), Dublin 4. Proposed development: change from residential to embassy use to entire three/four-storey terraced five-bedroom dwelling. Minor internal alterations to ground floor plan (garden level) only to accommodate a public reception area. Applicant: Sam Hussain.
Location: 127, 129, 131 and rear of 133 Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6. Proposed development: mixed-use development to include the demolition of Renault Diamond Cars showroom and construction of a ground floor retail unit, 33 apartments in two blocks and 25 basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Glencullen Developments Ltd.
Location: 7 Synott Place, Dublin 1. Proposed development: refurbish four-storey premises in multiple dwellings and provision of six one-bedroom apartments and three bedsits. Applicant: S Treanor.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 80 and 81 Ballybough Road, Dublin 3 on the corner of Charleville Avenue. Proposed development: demolish shop, apartments and house for a new four-storey over basement structure, including five two-bedroom apartments and one one-bedroom apartment over a ground floor retail unit with basement. Applicant: Anthony Handley.
Location: site at 8A, rear of Dorset Street Lower, fronting onto Dorset Lane, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish workshops for a four-storey building consisting of commercial use at ground floor, and two one-bedroom apartments at third floor. Applicant: L Culley.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: (Readymix site), 5/23 East Wall Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish concrete batching plant and two office blocks for 130 apartments (11 one-bedroom units, 89 two-bedroom units and 30 three-bedroom units) in an arrangement of six and 12-storey blocks. Provision of 214 underground car-parking spaces. Applicant: Readymix Ltd.
