A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
APPEALS
Location: Milltown Road, Dublin 6 (bounded by Alexandra College to south). Proposed development: Demolish Marian Hall and erect a six-block mixed use development featuring 217 apartments, childcare facility, fitness centre, retail units, health centre, car-parking and associated works. Applicant: Park Developments. Appellant(s): Society of St Vincent de Paul, Milltown Residents Association, Stephen Kelly, John Sheenan and Michael Murphy.
Location: Site bounded by Shaw Street and Brunswick Villas, Dublin 2. Proposed development: Demolish existing building and construct 16 apartments with car-parking and associated site works. Applicant: Rambler Properties Limited. Appellant(s): O'Neills Public House and Victorian Townhouse.
Location: Site adjoining The Heights, The Hill and Ballinteer Road at Woodpark, Ballinteer, Dublin 16. Proposed development: Erect 71 residential units. Applicant: Ballyboden Farms Limited. Appellant(s): The Woodpark Residents Association, Sinead McGuinness.
Location: Tulfarris House and Tulfarris Hotel, Blessington, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: Alterations and part demolition of buildings, relocation of leisure centre, two-storey extension, golf school and revised effluent treatment system. Applicant: Comfort Hotels Limited. Appellant(s): Poulaphouca Area Residence Group.
Location: Straffan Road, Sallins, Co Kildare. Proposed development: Erect 41 residential units with revised layout re 23 two-bedroom and 18 three-bedroom houses, access roads, drains, entrance and car-parking. Applicant: Lar McKenna. Appellant(s): Michael Corley, Lar Mckenna, Sallins Wood Residents Association, Deborah Gilleran, John Dennehy, Fran Nugent and others, James and Niamh Sexton, Brendan Slaughter, Sallins Community Council, Sallins Bridge Residents Association.
Location: Derry Demesne, Ballina, Co Tipperary. Proposed development: Retention of private berthing facility and improved drainage works. Applicant: Denis Dillon. Appellant(s): An Taisce, North Tipperary Association.
Location: University College Cork, Western Road, Cork. Proposed development: Construct a three-storey over lower ground building for use as a school of pharmacy. Applicant: University College Cork. Appellant(s): Adrian McNamara, College Road Residents Association, Anne M Hegarty.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Bank of Ireland site at junction of Kill Lane/Clonkeen Road, Deansgrange, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Demolish bank premises and construct discount food store with car-parking spaces. Applicant: Lidl Ireland GMBD (with revised conditions).
Location: 33/34 Kenilworth Square (protected structure), Dublin 6. Proposed development: Subsequent to previous planning application Reg Ref 4249/02, retention of refurbishment, alterations and associated site works, including extension to rear. Applicant: Rathgar Hotel (with revised conditions).
Location: Cherrywood Science and Technology Park, Cherrywood Business Park 1, Cherrywood, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect a three-storey plus penthouse over 11,072 sq m (119,17 sq ft) office space, 350 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Cherrywood Science and Technology Park Ltd (with conditions).
Location: Dublin Road, Haggardstown, Dundalk, Co Louth. Proposed development: Erect 363 dwelling houses. Applicant: P J & E J Doherty (with conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 11 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2 (protected structure). Proposed development: Partial demolition of existing commercial property and construction of two-storey dwelling house with a two-storey commercial unit to rear. Applicant: Seamus Meade.
Location: Kill Hill, Kill, Co Kildare. Proposed development: Erect 154 residential units incorporating one crèche/community facility on site of 5.34 hectares. Applicant: College Crest Homes Limited.
SOUTH DUBLIN
APPLICATIONS
Location: Lexington House, junction of Monastery Road, Monastery Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Proposed development: Demolish existing two-storey house and construct a residential development of 37 units in four blocks. Applicant: Lexington Partnership.
Location: Rear backland area of 5 Main Street, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Three-storey apartment block consisting of six two-bedroom apartments and four one-bedroom apartments and to the rear site boundary two three-bedroom detached dwellings located at the rear backland area. Applicant: Joseph Collins.
Location: Tom Donoghue Plant, Edmonstown Road, Edmonstown, Dublin 16. Proposed development: Erect a three-storey residential building comprising four three-bedroom townhouses, one two-bedroom townhouse with roof garden and six one-bedroom apartments giving a total of 11 units all over basement car-parking for 16 cars. Applicant: Tom Donoghue.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Citywest Hotel, Saggart, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Construct 76 two-bedroom golf apartments in one block, three-storey to eaves level and an additional storey in roof space with car-parking and associated site works. This building is being constructed on the site of a recorded monument with protected structure status on site. Applicant: HSS Limited.
FINGAL
APPLICATIONS
Location: Kilhedge Lane, Lusk, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Phase three of an overall residential development consisting of 67 residential units in seven two-storey blocks with a crèche/local facility. The previous phases of this development are completed or under construction. Applicant: Dwyer Nolan Developments Limited.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Fosterstown North, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect a residential development of 41 units comprising three four-bedroom houses, 18 three-bedroom houses, four two-bedroom houses, eight two-bedroom duplex units and eight three-bedroom duplex units in two/three-storeys with associated car-parking, landscaped spaces and site development works. Applicant: Bovale Development Limited.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Lusk, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect a residential development, in accordance with the Lusk Action Area Plan to consist of 244 residential units all in 20 three-storey blocks. Applicant: Dwyer Nolan Developments Limited.
Location: 64-68 Dublin Street, Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Demolish dwelling, veterinary surgery and on-site structures, conversion of existing dwelling to one retail unit and one apartment, construction of Block A fronting onto Dublin Street comprising three retail units and four duplex apartments. Block B to comprise 20 apartments in a three-storey block and Block C will consist of a two-storey crèche. Applicant: Seamus & Rory Murphy.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7. Proposed development: Erect a new 703 sq m (7,567 sq ft) extension on two levels extending north and east from the north-east corner of Clarke Square towards Arbour HIll to house exhibition galleries, a four-storey infill extension at the north-west corner of Clarke Square to house plant and ancillary spaces and a three-storey infill extension over an existing single storey link building at the north-east corner of Clarke Square to house a lift, toilets and plant rooms. Glazing in of the ground floor colonnade and central archway of the north block of Clarke Square and renovations and alterations primarily to the ground and first floor of the north block of Clarke Square. The buildings at Clarke Square are protected structures with an Architectural Conservation Area. Applicant: The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 7-9 Merrion Row, the "Billets" & section of Government Buildings, Merrion Row and South Road, Dublin 2. Proposed development: Office development consisting of the demolition of numbers 7-9 Merrion Road and their replacement with a six-storey over basement office building of 3,146 sq m (33,863 sq ft). Works to the boundary walls of the Huguenot Cemetery (Recorded Monument and Protected Structure). Remedial works to the western elevation of the adjoining building at 6 Merrion Row (Protected Structure). Alterations to and refurbishment of the "Billets" (Protected Structure) measuring 898 sq m (9,666 sq ft) fronting South Road of the Government Buildings complex in connection with its proposed use as office and ancillary accommodation in conjunction with new office building at numbers 7-9 Merrion Row. Internal refurbishment of three-storey building to the rear of numbers 7-9 Merrion Row. The construction of a pedestrian link and the construction of a glazed enclosure at the rear of the new office building. Applicant: Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.
Location: The site being; the area bounded by Coultry Drive to the north and east; Coultry Gardens and the rear of St Pappin's Church to the west; and Coultry Road to the south; and the area north of and extending approximately 36 metres to Ballymun, Dublin 11. Proposed development: Development to consist of the provision of a total of 119 development units. Applicant: Ballymun Regeneration Limited.
Location: Site to east of Poppintree Park, bounded to the east by Parc na Ciuilenn, Sillogue Road and Barnewall Drive, the north of Belclare Crescent and avenue and Marewood Drive and to the south by Willow Park Road, Ballymun, Dublin 11. Proposed development: Erect 124 dwellings in two, three and four-storey blocks. Applicant: Ballymun Regeneration Limited.
Location: Site by Balbutcher Lane, Dolmen Court, Ard na Meala and Dane Road, Poppintree, Ballymun, Dublin 11. Proposed development: Erect 75 dwellings to comprise of 18 one-bedroom apartments, 15 two-bedroom apartments, 11 two-bedroom houses and 31 three-bedroom houses. The buildings are single and two-storey in height, being terraced and semi-detached with one three-storey building comprising two duplex units and one apartment at the junction of Balbutcher Lane and Dane Road. Applicant: Ballymun Regeneration Limited.
Location: 8 Church Street. Convent view to the rear, Blind Lane, Finglas, Dublin 11. Proposed development: Demolish entrance wall and derelict single storey structure on site and construct two five-storey apartment blocks consisting of 52 units. Applicant: McCabe Construction Dublin Limited.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE-RATHDOWN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Carraig na Greine, off Coliemore Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Develop the gate-lodge structure at entrance. This development is in the curtilage of a Protected Structure and will consist of the retention of the existing front elevations, main entrance and adjacent front rooms and refurbishment of same, the demolition of existing rooms at the rear and construction of two single-storey apartments. Applicant: Sue Ryder Foundation (Ireland) Limited.
