A selective guide to planning in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
APPEALS
Location: Cappaghavuckee, Waterfall, Castletownbere, Co Cork. Proposed development:Construct 41 holiday houses, clubhouse centre, leisure/swimming-pool facility, holiday centre, staff accommodation, demolish existing holiday club house and 11 holiday chalets. Applicant:John Burke. Appellant(s): Roibeard MacGiollarnaith, Neil Jordan.
Location: Beechpark and 1 and 3 Farmleigh Avenue, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development:Mixed use development consisting of 400 residential units, a crèche, gym, autistic persons care unit/elderly persons housing development and 354 car-parking spaces. Applicant:Bryan Cullen. Appellant(s): James and Isabelle Higgins, Hilary McCutcheon and others, Cathy and Billy McCarthy and others, William and Pauline Knight and others, Paddy Quinn, Michael Burke and others, David Foley, Brendan and Mary McKenna, Hugh Cummins, William and Margaret Egan and others, Michael Noonan and Anne Noonan, John and Maeve Lynch, Ardlagh Residents Association, Rocwood and Laurleen Residents Association, Stillorgan District, Community & Residents Alliance, John and Lillian Geelon, Pat O'Hegarty, Mr and Mrs John and Lucy Gallagher, Miriam and Des Murphy, David Kelly, Anne and J G Cronin, Miriam Murphy and others.
Location: Rear of Leopardstown Shopping Centre, Ballyogan Road, Dublin 18. Proposed development:Mixed development of supermarket, 10 shops, health centre, community centre, offices, recreational facility and crèche. Applicant:Viscount Securities Limited. Appellant(s): Leopardstown Valley Shopping Centre, Leopardstown Valley Residents Association.
Location: Site bounded by Shaw Street, Townsend Street and Mark Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development:Demolish the following existing properties numbers 141, 142 and 143 Townsend Street, number 20 Mark Street and number 8 Shaw Street and construct 82 apartments, crèche and all associated site works. Applicant:Rambler Properties. Appellant(s): Dominic Sheehan.
Location: Corner of Church Gardens, Church Avenue, also part of rear gardens of numbers 44, 46, 48, 50 and 54 Rathmines Upper (protected structure), Rathmines, Dublin 6. Proposed development:Erect 18 residential units with 25 car-parking spaces and all site development, boundary and landscaping works. Applicant:Philip and Gary Dagg. Appellant(s): Belgrave Residents Association.
Location: Castle Street, Castlebar, Co Mayo. Proposed development:Erect a 92-bedroom hotel, seven retail units, nine office units and 675-space multi-storey car-park. Applicant:P Reynolds, M Hegarty and P McDermott. Appellant(s): Dunnes Stores.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Shankill House (protected structure), Ferndale Rd, Shankill, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect a 58-bed nursing home, convert dwelling for staff accommodation, office use and parking. Applicant: Frank Gilmer (with conditions).
Location: Dromoland Townland, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co Clare. Proposed development: Construct a new gate lodge style house, septic tank and percolation area with associated site works and services. Applicant: Lord Inchiquin (outline permission with conditions).
Location: 77, 78, 78a, 78b, 79, 80 Amiens Street, 2,4 Killarney Street, Dublin 1. Proposed development: Demolish and erect five-storey block with offices, enterprise centre, medical consultants, media recording and electrical sub-station. Applicant: Basil Good, Niall O'Brien and William Black (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Former Johnson & Johnson site, Old Belgard Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: Demolish existing industrial and office premises and construct a discount food store with 152 car-parking spaces, revised vehicular entrance and associated site works. Applicant: Lidl Ireland Gmbh.
Location: Site 3B, Greenhills Road, Main Street, Tallaght village, Dublin 24. Proposed development: Apartment building of three to four-storey over basement car-parking with 64 spaces, 53 apartments, ancillary accommodation, landscaping and associated site works. Applicant: John O'Connor.
Location: Powerscourt Demesne, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: Mixed use development including tourist accommodation (108 units), retail, restaurants, offices, crèche, car-parking and ancillary uses. Applicant: Powerscourt Estates.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 12A Churchtown Rd Upr, Churchtown, D14. Proposed development: Subdivision of site retaining existing house; construct two and three-storey over basement apartment development with 20 apartments with basement car-parking of 39 spaces and six external spaces. Applicant: Dunboden Estates Limited.
Location: Belmont House nursing home, Galloping Green, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect six one-bedroom apartments, three four-bedroom group homes in a three-storey block and ancillary site development works at rear. Applicant: Abbey Building Contractors.
Location: Site at Wynnsward Park, Clonskeagh, D14. Proposed development: Erect 17 two-bed apartments, five four-bed duplex townhouses and eight three-bed apartments with 45 car-parking spaces and site development works. Applicant: Abbey Building Contractors Limited.
Location: Former Allegro building, Carmanhall Road/Blackthorn Avenue, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18. Proposed development: Mixed use development. Demolish all existing structures on site and erect 144 residential apartments, an aparthotel of 55 units, five retail warehouses, health club, seven shops, surface car-parking and a multilevel car-park with 1,026 spaces in structures ranging from three to 11 storeys incorporating a four-storey glazed atrium. Applicant: Mark 11 Partnership.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Workman's Club, 19 Lwr George's Street, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Change of use from office to retail at second and third floor levels with a new storage area at ground floor level to rear car-park area of the previous application for the preservation and refurbishment of the Workman's Club. Applicant: Neil Burke Kennedy and Dominic Kelly.
Location: Site at Landscape Rd, D 14. Proposed development: Construct a 2.5-storey block containing 14 duplex apartments with car-parking. Applicant: Michael Doyle.
SOUTH DUBLIN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Tallaght Leisure Centre, Old Bawn Rd, Courthouse Sq, Tallaght, D24. Proposed development: Demolish leisure centre and build a four-storey building comprising leisure centre and car-parking at basement level, new pedestrian street to link Old Bawn Rd with Courthouse Sq and eight retail shops at ground floor level, 22 residential apartments at first, second and third floor levels. Applicant: Saverio Macari.
Location: 15 Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10. Proposed development: Demolish existing industrial and offices premises, boundary wall and railing and construct a discount foodstore comprising a single-storey structure, new boundary treatments and associated site development works to provide 178 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Lidl Ireland GmbH.
Location: The Presbytery, Cookstown Rd, Tallaght, D24. Proposed development: Demolish one bungalow and construct a three-storey residential block containing 12 three-storey three-bedroom houses, one one-bedroom apartment at ground floor below one two-bedroom duplex at first and second floors. Applicant: KGM Properties Limited.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Southern side of Scholarstown Road, bounded on the eastern side by Stocking Lane, and southern side by Ballyboden Water Works, Ballyboden, Dublin 16. Proposed development: Erect 610 residential units, crèche, gymnasium/swimming-pool and a public house/restaurant all on a site of approximately 9.7 hectares (24 acres). The application to include the demolition of existing house, overground and underground car-parking, landscaped open spaces, screen walls, boundary treatments, storage units, cycle paths and all associated site and infrastructural works. Applicant: Maplewood Developments Limited.
Location: 86 Butterfield Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Proposed development: Demolish existing house and construct a three-storey block of 10 apartments. Applicant: David Lavin.
Location: Old Nangor Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Proposed development: Erect nine two-bedroom apartments with associated car-parking and site works. Applicant: Jim McCann and Chris Keenan.
FINGAL
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: West End Retail Park, Blanchardstown, D15. Proposed development:Erect a two-storey retail unit of approximately 3,743 sq m (40,290 sq ft). Two-storey linear stockroom extension to the side of the existing and adjacent retail unit number 10. Revised signage provision to each retail unit. Revised vehicular access for service vehicles to existing service yard via the existing access to West End Office Park from Snugborough Road extension, situated to the east of the site to incorporate upgrading and improvement works to this access and the provision of a turning circle to the rear of the proposed retail unit to facilitate ingress and egress of heavy good vehicles. General environmental improvement and upgrading works at West End Retail Park, including new yard and soft landscaping works and associated remodelling of vehicular and pedestrian access to and circulation within the public car-park (to provide a total of 664 public car-parking spaces), incorporating improved pedestrian link to the Blanchardstown Town Centre and provision of a loading area for the KFC restaurant. Provision of a civic plaza to the front of Unit 2 and the demolition of existing security building and its replacement with a new security/management building. Applicant: Borg Developments Limited.
Location: Allandale, Hansfield Road, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 (protected structure). Proposed development: Erect 102 dwelling units in four 3.5-storey dormer apartment blocks plus 10 one-bedroom and 10 two-bedroom units in a three-storey terraced dormer blocks, four two-bedroom and four three-bedroom units in a three-storey terraced block and two one-bedroom dwellings. Construct a two-metre high wall/fence around existing house. Applicant: Ivor Cherry.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 4, 6, 8 Burlington Road, Dublin 4. Proposed development: Mixed use development to consist of the demolition of existing office blocks on site. Erect a six-storey office block over partial half-basement to rear, 127-bedroom hotel in the form of a seven-storey structure, five apartments at double penthouse level of hotel comprising four three-bedroom apartments and one two-bedroom duplex unit. Erect a six-storey block of apartments/aparthotel units plus penthouse level stepping down at the rear to five storeys with a total of 43 units, a gymnasium/leisure centre at lower ground floor level, four retail units and 190 car-parking spaces. Two vehicular accesses from Burlington Road to hotel plaza. Applicant: Coolbrook Developments Limited.
Location: 17 & 18 Great Longford Street at junction of Great Longford Street and Longford Lane (North), Dublin 2. Proposed development: Mixed use development comprising 12 apartments and a ground floor commercial unit in a building part six-storey and part four-storey. Applicant: John Morley.
