AN BORD PLEANÁLA:Location: 11a and 12-16 Harcourt Terrace and Harcourt Terrace Lane, Dublin 2. Proposed development: 43 apartments, offices and site works. Applicant: Harcourt Terrace Ltd. Appellant(s): Residents of Harcourt Terrace, An Taisce, Romney and Conor Keane, Harcourt Terrace Ltd.
Location: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 4a Gardiner Lane, off Gardiner Street Middle, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish building for a five-storey building of 10 apartments and four studio/work units and site works. Applicant: Peter, Tommy and Dorothy Clifford. Appellant(s): John Dowling and Thomas Dowling, Peter, Tommy and Dorothy Clifford.
Location: Rosemount Cottage, Dundrum Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish house for seven apartments with site works. Applicant: Fergal and Geraldine McDonnell. Appellant(s): Sunnybank Residents Association, Mary Grogan.
Location: The Cottage Home, Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: change of use and subdivide residential accommodation to five houses including demolition of porch to east structures to west building and gym building (protected structure). Applicant: Kembara Properties Ltd. Appellant(s): Robert Pocock and Philip Murray.
Location: Books Bros Garage, junction of Strand Road and Golf Links Road, Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: commercial space, office spaces and eight apartments with all works. Applicant: T Stafford & Sons Ltd. Appellant(s): Kim Haughton.
Location: 366-368 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 66 apartments in three blocks with site works. Applicant: MKM Developments. Appellant(s): Brendan and Ann Marie Hennigan.
Location: Church Street, Kilcock, Co Kildare. Proposed development: mixed-use development. Applicant: Zed Candy Ltd. Applicant: Emmet Stagg, TD, Kilcock and District Community Council, Abbeyfield Residents Association, Sean and Crona Browne, Zed Candy Ltd, Glengolden Builders Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: former CIÉ lands at Carnlough Road off the New Cabra Road, Cabra, Dublin 7 to include 2 & 4 Carnlough Road. Proposed development: demolish 2 and 4 Carnlough Road for 394 apartments, eight houses, crèche, two retial units, civic centre and site works. Applicant: Niall Molloy (with conditions).
Location: McConnells, 15 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, D3. Proposed development: demolish buildings for a five-storey building of two commercial units, one live/work unit and 18 apartments with site works. Applicant: Brendan Jackson, McConnells (with revised conditions).
Location: Taney Lawn Tennis Club, "Belgravia", 9a Victorian Terrace, "Cranford", Taney Park and "Lisheen", Taney Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish three houses for a nursing home/sheltered accommodation facility. Applicant: Rector and Select Vestry of Taney Parish (with conditions).
Location: "Garryknock" and "Sunday's Well", Carpenterstown Road, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish two houses for 147 units, crèche with car-parking and site works. Applicant: Cosgrave Developments (with conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Esmonde Motors site, The Hill, Old Stillorgan Road, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish structures on site for 141 residential units, aparthotel, restaurant, pub, and six retail units. Applicant: Esmonde Motors Ltd.
Location: 155-157 Merrion Road, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish two dwellings for 17 residential units and car-parking. Applicant: Merrion Co-Ownership.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Location: Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 319 dwellings and nine live/work units comprising 17 one-bed units, 106 two-bed units, 183 three-bed units and 13 four-bed units in a mix of apartments, townhouses and duplexes. The nine live/work units are two-bed units. The development is from three to five storeys with 590 car-parking spaces and 302 cycle spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction.
Location: site at Executive Golf Course, Saggart, Co Dublin. Proposed development: construct 56 two-bedroom hotel golf lodge apartments. Applicant: HSS
DUN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Crofton Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: building of six to eight storeys. Demolish dwelling on Crofton Road for 80 apartments (eight one-beds, 64 two-beds and eight three-beds), two retail units and 124 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Wexele.
Location: former Nurses Home, Eblana Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: partial demolition to include stairway to the north of the building and single storey element to the west and south. Extension at ground floor to accommodate a Sisters of Mercy community facility, office accommodation with a six-bed residence and prayer room. Extensions to the west and north for residential accommodation from first to fifth floor inclusive. New floor at sixth floor with a three-bed apartment at roof level. Erect 31 apartments consisting of nine one-beds, 20 two-beds and two three-beds. Applicant: Wexele.
FINGAL
Location: Hawthorn Hotel, 44 Main Street, Swords, Fingal, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish mid-terrace 10-bed hotel, bar and structures for a mid-terrace 30-bed hotel with bar and facilities. Applicant: The Hawthorn Hotel.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Roganstown Golf and Country Club, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: six three-bed holiday homes in a two-storey terrace with car-parking, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Joseph & Denise McLoughlin.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: site of Dundalk SRH Ltd at the junction of Balfe Road, Drimnagh Road and Walkinstown Road, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish two bank buildings and two factory buildings for a two-storey bank fronting onto Walkinstown Road, and a three-storey retail centre fronting onto Walkinstown Road, Drimnagh Road and Balfe Road with customer parking. Erect 67 apartments (four one-beds, 39 two-beds, 18 two-bed duplexes and six three-beds) in a nine-storey corner building at the junction of Balfe Road, Drimnagh Road and Walkinstown Road, stepping down to five storeys along Walkinstown Road, Balfe Road and to rear of site. Provision of 174 basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Dundalk SRH Ltd.
Location: 12 Wexford Street and site behind Protestant Row, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish buildings and outbuildings on site on Protestant Row to rear of 12 Wexford Street and demolish first, second and third floors over 12 Wexford Street. Erect four new storeys over the retained ground floor retail shop at 12 Wexford Street and six storeys to the rear onto Protestant Row. New floors to accommodate 17 apartments with site works. Applicant: Declan Gleeson.
Location: The Old School House, Sherrard Street Lower, Dublin 1. Proposed development: change from light industrial to residential use consisting of two two-bed duplexes and six three-bed duplexes within the structure, two two-storey entrance lobby and bathroom extensions and new first floor balcony to rear with the demolition of rear lean-to and single storey extensions. Applicant: Richard J Keane, Rawlton Ltd.
Location: site occupied by the buildings and curtilage of 36, 40, 42 and 44 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6, and portions of the original demise at the rear of 38 Lower Rathmines Road (known as Blackberry Fair Market site), comprising an area of 2,586sq m (27,835sq ft) bounded to the west by Lower Rathmines Road, to the south by 46 Lower Rathmines Road (property of the Holy Ghost Fathers) and 48 Lower Rathmines Road (property of the parish of Mary Immaculate), to the east by 6 Bessborough Court and Fortesque Lane, and to the north by 34 Lower Rathmines Road. Proposed development: retain 36, 40, 42 and 44 Lower Rathmines Road (protected structures). Refurbish 36, 40, 42 and 44 Lower Rathmines Road for 16 apartments. Two new linked buildings within the rear curtilage of the site incorporating sub-basement parking for 32 cars, a commercial/medical centre, seven one-bed and three two-bed units at first, second and third floor level of Block A (a four-storey building); five retail/office units; 13 one-bed, three two-beds and two studio apartments at first, second, third and fourth floor level of Block B (a five-storey and three-storey building). Refurbishment of 36, 40, 42 and 44 Lower Rathmines Road will include demolition of later rear return blocks of 36, 42 and 44 and reinstatement of rear facades with original window break-up, and sub-divide for four one-bed apartments in 36 Lower Rathmines Road and three one-bed units in numbers 40 and 42 Lower Rathmines Road, and three studio apartments in 44 Lower Rathmines Road. Change of use of basement level of 40 and 42 Lower Rathmines Road to commercial/café; change of use of basement level of 44 to commercial/office/reception. Provision of 32 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Gerard Kelly, John Dempsey and Stephen Loftus.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street Lower, Block C on Marlborough Street, 17-20 Marlborough Street, 19-23 Marlborough Place, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish 19-23 Marlborough Place to ground level; 17-20 Marlborough Street to ground level; basements at 19 and 20 Marlborough Street and Block C, Irish Life Centre, Marlborough Street to first floor slab level only. New seven-storey office building with an entrance from Marlborough Street and the courtyard at Abbey Court. Twenty-eight car-parking spaces at basement level. Applicant: John Walsh, Irish Life and Permanent Plc.
Location: site bounded by River Road and Tolka Valley to north, Ashtown Road to west, Pelletstown village centre to south and undeveloped lands to east, within scheme known as Pelletstown, Ashtown, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish marketing suite for 252 residential units (45 one-beds, 156 two-beds, 39 three-beds and 12 four-beds) in five blocks with two levels of basement car-parking. Block 1: 15 storeys with 46 residential units. Block 2: part seven-storey part two-storey building with 98 residential units. Block 3: seven-storey building with 37 residential units. Block 4: seven storeys with 38 residential units. Block 5: seven storeys with 33 residential units. Retail units, office space, crèche and 333 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction.
