A selective guide to developments in your area.
An Bord Pleanála
APPEALS
Location: between Millennium Bridge and Hal'penny Bridge, Ormond Quay Lower, Dublin 1. Proposed development: floating pontoon and site works. Applicant: Irish Ship and Barge Fabrication Co Ltd. Appellant(s): Paul Romeril, Irish Ship and Barge Fabrication Co Limited, Patrick Shaffrey, An Taisce, TASCQ.
Location: 34-37 Ormond Quay, 28A and 32/33 Strand Street Great, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish buildings for hotel with site works (protected structure). Applicant: Deepdrill Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): An Taisce.
Location: site at Oscar Traynor Road, Clonshaugh Road, Kilmore Road, Cromcastle Road and Park, Kilbarron Road, Barrycourt Road and Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, Dublin 17. Proposed development: mixed-use community with site works. Applicant: NI Property Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Riverside Residents Group.
Location: junction of Greenhills Road and Main Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: 28 apartments and three retail units as modification/extension to permission granted (SD04A/0731). Applicant: John OConnor. Appellant(s): Bancroft Residents Association.
Location: Finglas Inn, Barry Road, Finglas, Dublin 11. Proposed development: demolish pub for pub, nine duplexes, 20 apartments and site works. Applicant: Tykillan Valley Ltd. Appellant(s): Brendan Keenan, Joseph Brennan.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Stapolin townland, Grange Road, Baldoyle, Dublin 13. Proposed development: 453 residential units, crèche, car-parking, civic park and site works. Applicant: Helsingor Ltd (with conditions).
Location: rear of 33 34 Kenilworth Square, fronting onto Rathgar Avenue, Dublin 6 (protected structure). Proposed development: four houses, parking, and site works. Applicant: Chris ODonoghue (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Dunluce House, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines Great, Dublin 18. Proposed development: 73 apartments, site works. Applicant: Carrickmines Manor Ltd.
Location: Raheen House and Raheen Cottage, Old Nangor Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Proposed development: demolish two houses and outbuildings for 18 apartments in two three-storey blocks with 26 car-parking spaces. Applicant: B and N Nolan.
Location: Bayside Shopping Centre, Bayside Square, Sutton, Dublin 13. Proposed development: demolish existing units except 116 and 109 for 81 apartments, retail, offices and site works. Applicant: Bayside Centre Management Ltd.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
APPLICATIONS
Location: 0.34-hectare site at Old Bray Road, Foxrock, Co Dublin (site is adjacent to the AIB bank and is principally bounded by the N11 to the north, undeveloped lands to the south, the N11 to the east and the AIB Bank and Old Bray Road to the west). Proposed development: five to eight storeys with 82 residential units (14 one-bed, 56 two-bed and 12 three-bed units), crèche, 134 car-parking spaces and seven surface car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Cornrick Developments Limited.
Location: site of Sallybrook and Belgrove, Sandyford village, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish two two-storey semi-detached dwellings for three-storey apartment building with ground floor entrance lobby and stair/lift core with three apartments; three apartments at first floor and two apartments at second floor level; eight car-parking spaces and landscaping. Applicant: Aidan Redmond.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Glenville Industrial Estate, Fosters Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish 28 Fosters Avenue, side garage and boundary wall on part of the lands of house at 24 Fosters Avenue and industrial building on site for a residential development of 19 units. Provision of 58 car-parking spaces and landscaping. Applicant: Redquartz Ltd.
Location: Croham Hurst, Balally townland, Sandyford Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish house and garage for apartment scheme with 48 dwellings, 54 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Ralph Lindsay.
Dublin City Council
APPLICATIONS
Location: 30, 31, 32 33 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 (all protected structures). Proposed development: demolish 3,236sq m (34,832sq ft) of offices to the rear of 30, 31, 32 and 33 Molesworth Street for 8,002.3sq m (86,136sq ft) of office space in five storeys over a double basement. Change of use of part of ground floor and first floor of 32 Molesworth Street to retail and provision of 10 car-parking spaces. Works to 30 Molesworth Street: reinstate rear windows at first and second floor levels to original configuration; restore rear doors at basement and ground floor; restore rear window at basement level; remove office storage space at rear basement level; and remove two-storey rear office storage extension and rear office mews. Works to 31 Molesworth Street: restore rear window at basement; remove office storage space and two internal partitions at basement; remove single storey office storage extension; remove office mews and four internal partitions at ground floor. Works to 32 Molesworth Street: reinstate two rear windows at basement and ground floor level, and one rear window at first, second and third floor levels; modify rear doorways at basement and ground floor levels; remove internal partitions from two rooms; remove three-storey office extension at rear. Works to 33 Molesworth Street: reinstate three rear windows and modify one window at basement level; reinstate two rear windows and modify one window at ground floor level; reinstate one rear window at second floor level; modify rear window at second floor level to form new doorway; modify rear door opes at basement, ground and first floor levels to align with window and door patterns; remove internal partitions from one room at basement, three rooms at ground, one room at first, four rooms at second and one room at third floor levels; relocate staircase; remove three-storey over basement office extension to rear. Site works. Applicant: The OShea Partnership.
Location: Jervis Shopping Centre, Mary Street, Jervis Street and Upper Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish entrance features and dome on Mary Street and replace with a feature glass cube projecting 2.4 m forward of front building line and located from 4.215 metres above ground level to 14.3 metres above ground level with a floor area of 60.7sq m (653sq ft). Demolish set back mansard floor level behind the retained facades of 17 to 23C inclusive Mary Street (protected structures) used for offices and erect replacement floor above of 909.5sq m (9,780sq ft) for new retail space at level four and a floor above at level five with 489.4sq m (5,268sq ft) for use as offices. Demolish part of two floors at level four and five used for car-parking and alterations to the internal traffic circulation and the change of use of the car-park four at level four to retail use. Convert plant area at level four to retail space and relocate plant to roof on level five. Install new escalator at level three in area used for retail use to provide access to new retail floor area at level four. Raise set back roof level at west end of Mary Street elevation to accommodate increase in lift run. Change of use of car-park at level four to storage. Applicant: Jervis Shopping Centre Management.
Location: Iveagh Trust housing estate, Bull Alley Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: extend mixed-use office and hostel building within Iveagh Trust housing estate. by additional floor over existing office to contain three one-bedroom apartments and a three-storey extension at ground, first and second floor level to the front eastern elevation of the building. The front extension will contain disabled access reception area, interview rooms and toilets at ground floor level, office and accommodation on the first and second floors. The height of the building will be increased from three to four storeys. Applicant: The Trustees of the Iveagh Trust.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 1-2 Chamber Street, at junction with Ardee Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish three-storey building (Ardee House) for a six-storey building with new bar, off-licence and bookmakers at street level and nine apartments. Applicant: James Lesie Curtis.
Location: Saint Marys Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8. Proposed development: new two-storey 50-bedroom community nursing unit with 50 surface car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Health Services Executive.
Location: 198 204 Grace Park Road, Dublin 9. Proposed development: demolish dwellings for eight two-storey dwellings, 22 apartments (four one-bed, 12 two-bed and six three-beds), 48 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Tiffen Developments Ltd.
Fingal
APPLICATIONS
Location: The Lodge, junction of Church Road and Old Navan Road, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish pub, house, the Lodge Bar and Lounge, for scheme of four to six storeys with a pub, 50 apartments (nine one-beds, 34 two-beds, six three-beds and one four-bed unit), 50 underground car-parking spaces for residential element and 45 multi-storey car-parking spaces for commercial element plus seven short term spaces near entrance gate, landscaping and site works. Applicant: North Port Ltd.
Arklow Town Council
APPLICATIONS
Location: site at Tinahask Upper, Arklow, Co Wicklow, bounded by the Dublin-Wexford railway line and Arklow Golf Club. The site is part of a mixed-use masterplan for 39.8 hectares within the administrative jurisdiction of Arklow Town Council and Wicklow County Council, accessed via a spur road and bridge from the old N11. Proposed development: 398 dwellings, comprising 243 houses (151 three-bedroom houses and 92 four-bedroom houses), 74 apartments (27 one-bedroom units, 45 two-bedroom units and two three-bedroom units), and 75 duplex units, all in 112 blocks ranging from three to five storeys. Forty shop units, supermarket with off-licence, 24 office suites, one financial service unit, seven medical suites, two public houses, café, four restaurants, two betting offices, an off-licence and two crèches all in buildings from one-and-a-half storeys to five storeys. The development also includes two playgrounds, public car-parking, on-street parking, residential parking, landscaped open space and site development works. Applicant: Gannon Homes Ltd.
Tullamore Town Council
APPLICATIONS
Location: site of 2.61 hectares at Offaly Street, Columcille Street, OConnell Street, St Kyrans Street and Kilbride Park, Tullamore, Co Offaly. Proposed development: demolish three Texas retail units, public house and storage shed. Remove water tank and oil tank. Erect two-storey building with a shopping centre and two levels of underground car-parking, new public park and civic plaza at Kilbride Park, a new civic space at Offaly Street/Columcille Street, change of use of 16 Columcille Street and the widening of Offaly Street at its junction with Columcille Street. The shopping centre is to comprise of three anchor store units, 37 retail units, four kiosks, an enclosed mall area, public toilets, management suite, and two levels of underground car-parking with a total of 704 spaces. Change use of 16 Columcille Street to retail use. Applicant: Inverine Plc.
Compiled by Mary Hetherington
