Apartments appealed on 'principle': A resident of Shrewsbury Road has asked An Bord Pleanála to oppose "the principle" of an apartment block being built at the former Chester Beatty Library at 20 Shrewsbury Road because it is a "unique conservation area".
In her appeal to the board, Barbara MacKenzie, who lives next door to the former library, says that, although Dublin City Council refused planning permission for O'Malley Homes and Developments latest application for seven apartments on the site, it did not go far enough in its reasons for refusal.
The developer was granted planning permission for seven apartments last year but this latest application proposed changing three ground floor apartments into duplex units which would be accommodated by adding an extra floor, resulting in around 750sq m (8,072sq ft) more floor space. She says that while mass, height and scale are important considerations, Dublin City Council should have also said that any apartment development would be inconsistent with the proper planning of the area and would be unacceptable. She maintains a more appropriate development is a large single family dwelling unit. O'Malley Homes bought the site in 1999 for €9.14 million.
Hotel and nursing home appealed
In an appeal to An Bord Pleanála, Seán Mulryan's Zapi Properties says it is opposing a 62-bed nursing home development and outline permission for a hotel on a site near its residential development at Charlesland in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Zapi claims that Messrs Dowd, Carron and Evans, developers of the nursing home and hotel, have altered site boundaries in response to a request for further information from the local authority. Zapi says this should have been done by way of a new planning application.
Messrs Dowd, Carron and Evans were granted planning permission by Wicklow County Council to build a 62-bed nursing home with 35 car-parking spaces and got outline planning permission for a 80-bed hotel.
211 apartments for D8 site
Osprey Property Limited, an Eircom subsidiary, has been granted planning permission for a mixed-use scheme bounded by Clarence Mangan Road and Warrenmount Convent in Dublin 8. The development includes 211 apartments, including 16 live-work units, 10 shops/commercial units, and offices. Eircom will convert 10 Mill Street, a protected structure, and the former Mission Hall, which are both in ruins, into a microbrewery, a restaurant/café and bar. A craft workshop will be converted to commercial and residential use.
