Compiled by Mary Hetherington
An Bord Pleanála
APPEALS
Location: Clonbur, off the junction of Torquay Road and Westminster Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish house for 11 apartments and retail. Applicant: Michael McNamara. Appellant(s): Joseph McCarthy, Foxrock Area Development Ltd, Susan Jenkins and Andrew Moore.
Location: Promenade Road, Parish of St Thomas, Dublin Port, Dublin 3. Proposed development: new over ground, vertical, steel petroleum product storage tank within newly constructed bund in yard one and site works. Applicant: Tedcastle Oil Products. Appellant(s): Clontarf Residents Association.
Location: 70 Grafton Street and 1 2 Harry Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: change of use to 280sq m (3,014sq ft) retail unit. Applicant: Ickendel Ltd. Appellant(s): Irish Life and Permanent PLC.
Location: former CIÉ lands at Carnlough Road, Cabra, Dublin 7. Proposed development: alterations to previous permission (Reg. Ref: 3884/06) and An Bord Pleanála PL29N.221512. Applicant: Niall Molley Ailesbury Co-ownership. Appellant(s): Cabra Hills Committee.
Location: Ahgfarrell Townlands, Brittas, Co Dublin. Proposed development: continuance of use of quarry, ancillary facilities, extension of the quarry extraction area by 4.2 hectares to give a total extraction area of 15.5 hectares within site of 28.1 hectares. Applicant: Shillelagh Quarries Ltd. Appellant(s): Dublin Mountain Conservation and Environmental Group, Shillelagh Quarries Ltd.
Location: Captains Hill, Leixlip, Co Kildare. Proposed development: demolish crèche for 21 houses and crèche. Applicant: James Hargraves. Appellant(s): Emmet Stagg, Avondale Residents Association.
Location: Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Dundalk, Co Louth. Proposed development: 302 staff car-parking spaces, footpaths, cycle lanes, lighting, CCTV cameras, fencing and landscaping. Applicant: Dundalk Institute of Technology. Appellant(s): An Taisce.
Location: The Millhouse, Main Street, Clonee, Co Meath. Proposed development: 42 apartments, retail units, offices and works. Applicant: CPF Properties Ltd. Appellant(s): Alan and Brenda Molloy, Seamus Aidan Fleming.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: lands at Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: regional/district centre of 23,510sq m (253,059sq ft), 952 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Parkway Partnership (with revised conditions).
Location: Block 1, Clanwilliam Court, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish building for a seven-storey office building. Applicant: Abbeyrock Developments Ltd (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Glen Erin, the Burrow, Portrane, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house for 15 houses and site works. Applicant: Tony and Doreen Ritchie.
Location: Knocks and Johnstown, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath. Proposed development: 160 houses and site works. Applicant: Ray Stokes.
Location: Dromin Road, Dromgoolestown, Castlebellingham, Co Louth. Proposed development: service station building, foot court, restaurants, eight retail units, 51-bed hotel, car-parking and site works. Applicant: Patrick and Noel Martin and Damien Donegan.
Dublin City Council
APPLICATIONS
Location: Jervis Lane Upper (rear of 56 57 Capel Street), Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish structures for a five-storey building with two office units and six apartments (four one-beds and two two-bed duplex units). Provision of 12 cycle spaces and site works. Applicant: Phillip Conlon.
Location: 3, 4, 5 6 Parnell Street and Jervis Lane Upper, Dublin 1 (protected structure). Proposed development: extension and alteration of structures at 3 Parnell Street and the demolition of 4, 5 and 6 Parnell Street. Retention and part restoration of the façade at 3, 4 and 5 Parnell Street. Six-storey building with three retail units and 13 apartments (eight one-beds, three two-beds, one two-bed duplex and one three-bed duplex); provision of 15 cycle spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Philip Conlon.
Location: 44a 43a Belvedere Place, part rear return and lands to rear of 43 Belvedere Place and rear of 16 Mountjoy Square North, Dublin 1 (protected structure). Proposed development: demolish part rear return of 43 Belvedere Place (protected structure) at first, second and third floor levels and demolish 44a Belvedere Place, a derelict commercial unit, and 43a Belvedere Place, a single storey garage. New end-terrace five-storey 21-bed residential hostel with site works. Applicant: Olwen OCallaghan.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: site designated as 5B Shangan Avenue, bounded by Shangan Green to the north, Shangan Gardens to the east, Whitcare Park and residential estate to the south, and 1-59 Shangan Avenue, Ballymun, Dublin 9. Proposed development: 57 residential units from one to three storeys and consisting of 25 apartments, one duplex unit and 31 terraced houses. Provision of 85 car-parking spaces at surface level; new rear access gates and wall to 46 Shangan Gardens, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Ballymun Regeneration Ltd.
Location: 19 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish house for a five-storey residential scheme with two one-beds, seven two-beds and one three-bed (10 apartments) with 16 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Jerry Beades.
Fingal
APPLICATIONS
Location: on a site of 0.47 hectares at Hansfield, Clonsilla, Dublin 15, located within zone two of the Hansfield Strategic Development Scheme Plan 2006 bounded on the north and east by the Ongar Road and roundabout on the south and west by a previously permitted development known as Hansfield Wood. Proposed development: 47 one, two and three-bed apartments in three four, five and seven-storey blocks with site development works, car-parking and landscaping. Applicant: Menolly Homes.
Location: on a site of 4.97 hectares at Hansfield, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Proposed development: residential scheme of 103 dwellings consisting of 26 two-storey three-bed duplex units with 13 two-bed apartments on second level; two three and four-bed duplex units with one three-bed apartment on second level; 20 three-bed two-storey townhouses in four blocks; nine two and three-bed duplex units and apartments in one three-storey block; three two-bed apartments and one three-storey block and 29 two-bed apartments in one three-storey block with penthouses setback at fourth storey level. Car-parking, site works, public and private open spaces, and landscaping. Applicant: Menolly Homes.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: The Emerald, Donabate, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish two-storey shop and living accommodation for a three-storey mixed-use scheme with a total of 14 units. The development will include restaurant and function room, three retail units and post office/convenience store at ground floor level with eight office/commercial units and two kitchenette areas at first floor and a recessed penthouse including two two-bed apartments. Applicant: Gary Fay and Linda McGloughlan.
South Dublin
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Ashleaf Shopping Centre, Crumlin Cross, Crumlin, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish 3,559sq m (38,309sq ft), refurbish 2,960sq m (31,861sq ft), continued use of 12,394sq m (133,408sq ft), reorganise existing floorspace and new construction resulting in total floor space of 28,084sq m (302,293sq ft), excluding car-parking at basement level of 14,482sq m (155,883sq ft). Increase retail space from 7,857sq m (84,572sq ft) to 10,926sq m (117,606sq ft). Increase office use from 2,367sq m (25,478sq ft) to 2,653sq m (28,557sq ft). Increase medical centre from 247sq m (2,659sq ft) to 323sq m (3,477sq ft). Decrease non-retail services from 714sq m (7,685sq ft) to 238sq m (2,562sq ft). Decrease public bars from 3,209sq m (34,541sq ft) to 214sq m (2,303sq ft). Provision of an 80-bed aparthotel, 40 residential units (four one-beds, 33 two-beds and three three-beds) and increase car-parking by 11 spaces to 557 spaces. The scheme will be arranged over five levels. Applicant: Gary Smith.
