Planning and Development

A selective guide to developments in your area

A selective guide to developments in your area

AN BORD PLEANÁLA

Location: Knockrabo, Mount Anville Road, Goatstown, Dublin 14. Proposed development: 369 residential units, car-parking, crèche, fitness facility and site works. Applicant: Knockrabo Development Ltd. Appellant(s): Mairead and Richard Ryan, Bernie Doheny, Patrick Doheny, Ardilea Residents Association.

Location: Muckross House, Killarney, Co Kerry. Proposed development: visitor entrance with reception, audio-visual area, internal staircase, lift and associated works. Applicant: Commissioners of Public Works. Appellant(s): Diarmuid Cronin.

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Location: Dunkettle, Glanmire, Co Cork. Proposed development: change of use Dunkathel House, 629 residential units, retail unit, garden centre, equestrian centre, crèche, shop, car-parking, new access and site works. Applicant: O'Flynn Construction Co Ltd. Appellant(s): Mitchel Barry, Glounthaune Community Association Ltd, Barry and Joan Murphy.

Location: Ballinacarrig, Co Carlow. Proposed development: four-storey with basement hotel of 78 bedrooms, bar, restaurant, leisure centre and all site works. Applicant: Usl Homes Ltd. Appellant(s): An Taisce - Carlow Association.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: 694 Howth Road, Dublin 5. Proposed development: 16 apartments in a three-storey block and eight terraced houses with site works. Applicant: E Farrelly (with conditions).

Location: former HB/Unilever site, Whitehall Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: retail park including DIY store, garden centre, retail warehouse units, discount food store, gym, crèche, offices, café and car-parking. Applicant: Bymac Project Managers Ltd (with revised conditions).

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: McGrattans Restaurant, 76 Fitzwilliam Lane, Dublin 2. Proposed development: partial demolition of first floor, provision of two apartments on first floor, four apartments on additional second floor, roof garden, access and associated works (within curtilage of protected structures 76 and 77 Merrion Square). Applicant: Dan McGrattan.

Location: 51 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4 (protected structure). Proposed development: demolish rear returns and erect new rear returns, internal and external alterations, change of use of apartments to a three-storey e-learning centre and associated works. Applicant: Paul Rowland.

Location: Fey Yerra, Leopardstown Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish house for 20 apartments with car-parking and site works. Applicant: Strandsend Ltd.

Location: Bayside, Dublin 13. Proposed development: redevelop Bayside Neighbourhood Centre and Squash Centre. Demolish all buildings for a mixed-use scheme of three blocks, 13 retail units and 106 apartments. Applicant: Bayside Management Co Ltd.

Location: 27/29 Dunville Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish buildings for a four-storey block with a retail unit, retail/salon/clinic units, three apartments and associated works. Applicant: John Kavanagh.

Location: 151-169 Richmond Road, Fairview, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish warehouse and storage buildings for four blocks of two to four storeys with 44 residential units. Applicant: Stella Trust Ltd.

Location: The Comfort Inn, Denmark Street Great, Dublin 1. Proposed development: two 1.3-metre face-mounted antennae, one 1.3-metre pole-mounted antenna and three 0.3-metre pole-mounted radio link dishes and associated equipment (protected structure). Applicant: Hutchison 3 G Ireland Ltd.

Location: 112A Upper Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9. Proposed development: demolish dwelling for a four-storey penthouse building of 11 student dwellings, one caretaker unit and works. Applicant: Shane and Simon Carthy.

Location: Custom House, junction of Lower O'Connell Street, adjacent to Trident Hotel, Kinsale, Co Cork. Proposed development: renovation and conservation of Customer House Building, change use to hotel, construct three and two-storey annex, associated park and site works. Applicant: Courtenay and Valerie Good.

DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN

Location: Ardbrugh Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 18 apartments (15 two-beds and three three-beds) in one six-storey block with communal and private roof gardens and balconies facing north and south. Twenty surface car-parking spaces, gym, passenger lifts and site development works. Applicant: Marie Conlon.

Location: St Columcille's Hospital (site adjacent to) in Loughlinstown, Co Dublin. Proposed development: three to five-storey over basement residential building in three attached blocks comprising 72 apartments (32 one-beds, 35 two-beds and five three-beds) with 90 basement car-parking spaces, 18 surface car-parking spaces and site development works. Applicant: Astondale Construction Ltd.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: George's Court, 15/16 George's Place, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish five-storey office for a seven-storey detached building over basement car park to consist of 31 apartments. Ground level car-parking for three cars and basement car-parking for 30 cars. Applicant: Highland Estates (Dún Laoghaire) Ltd.

FINGAL

Applications

Location: New Ongar Road, Castlefield Court Estate, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Proposed development: 185 residential units (103 two, three and four-bed terraced, semi-detached and detached houses, 19 three-bed duplexes and 63 one, two and three-bed apartments) all in a two, three and four-storey development with 295 associated car-parking spaces. Applicant: La Vista Ltd & EP Lynam Properties Ltd.

Location: 8 The Bungalow, Brackenstown Road, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish two houses for 39 residential units (nine three-storey townhouses and 30 apartments in two three-storey blocks). Applicant: Denis Fisher.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Feltrim Road, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 38 apartments with site works. Applicant: Michael Barrable.

Location: Estuary Road, Malahide, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish single-storey cottage and outbuildings for one two-storey block containing six two-bed apartments with associated balconies and site works. Applicant: Thomas Smyth & Sons Ltd.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: Balscadden Road, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: outline permission for 27 two-bed apartments, six one-bed apartments in three storeys with 50 basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Alan Cluxton.

SOUTH DUBLIN

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: The Bungalow, Hayden's Lane, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish bungalow and garage for six townhouses (four three-bed and two four-bed) and relocate vehicular entrance with 12 car-parking spaces, associated works, landscaping and drainage. Applicant: Victor Blake.

Location: Inis Ealga, Owendore Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish two-storey detached dwelling for two two-storey four-bed detached houses with associated site works. Applicant: Adele Cummins.

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL

Applications

Location: Premier Dairies site, Finglas Road North, Dublin 11. Proposed development: permission for mixed-use scheme. Block one: discount foodstore at ground level and 24 apartments above. Block two: five-storey block with 30 units (five one-beds, 20 two-beds and five three-beds). Block three: five-storey block with 30 units (five one-beds, 20 two-beds and five three-beds). Block four: five storeys with 20 units (10 one-beds and 10 two-beds). Ninty-six surface and 129 basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Aldi Stores Developments Ltd.

Location: 9-13 Terenure Road North, Dublin 6W. Proposed development: demolish two-storey office for a four-storey building with three ground floor own-door offices and 10 apartments (two one-beds and eight two-beds) with basement car-parking for 20 cars. Applicant: Brian Lynch.

Location: former Irish Cone and Wafer premises at corner of Shannon Terrace and Old Kilmainham and to rear of 1-5 Auburn Terrace, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish industrial buildings and two-storey offices for a three and four-storey building of 14 two-bed apartments and a two-storey building at the southern side of the site with one two-bed apartment and 15 surface car-parking spaces. Applicant: Irish Cone and Wafer Manufacturing Co Ltd.

Location: 181 James Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish single storey building for a six-storey building with one retail/commercial unit, nine apartments and site works. Applicant: Noel Reynolds.

Location: 10 & 11 Synott Place, Dublin 1. Proposed development: permission to convert three-storey dwelling into eight one-bed apartments, demolish sheds to rear and construct two two-storey three-bed dwellings with gardens to rear and associated off-street car-parking. Applicant: Diarmuid O'Ceallaigh.

Location: 15-16 Kelly's Row, Dublin 1 (rear of 15 & 16 Gardiner Street, protected structures). Proposed development: demolish sheds for a four-storey building with three one-bed and five two-bed apartments with landscaped courtyard to rear and all associated site works. Applicant: Papsta Accommodation Ltd.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: 7 and 8 St Mary's Place, also between 13 and 16 Mountjoy Street (fronting St Mary's Place North and Paradise Place), Dublin 7. Proposed development: permission for mixed-use scheme in two blocks. Demolish 7 and 8 St Mary's Place North and construct eight one-bed, four two-bed and one three-bed apartments in four/five-storey block between 13 and 16 Mountjoy Street, and one one-bed live/work unit, two two-bed live/work units, one commercial/office unit, 24 two-bed and five one-bed apartments in a four to six-storey block fronting St Mary's Place North and Paradise Place with 22 basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Brian Durkan & Co Ltd.

Location: Walton's Hotel, 1 Gardiner Row and 1-4 and 5 Frederick Street North, and 2-4 Frederick Court, Dublin 1. Proposed development: 747sq m (8,041sq ft) extension comprising a flat roofed five-storey block with set back at fifth storey, four bay windows to Frederick Corut and rooflight to stairs containing 28 bedrooms and two lounge areas in storeys one to five with foyer, nine-bay car-par and landscaping at ground level at 2, 3 and 4 Frederick Court, D1. Applicant: Fionn MacCumhaill.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: 107-109 Haddington Road (protected structures), Dublin 4. Proposed development: permission to convert from 18 flats to eight one-bed and four two-bed apartments. Demolish late 20th century three-storey rear returns for enlarged three-storey rear returns with associated works. Applicant: L Berry.