A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
Appeals
Location: National Library, rear 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish structures for 6,180sq m (66,521sq ft) book repository building over seven levels. New glazed link bridge extension to atrium comprising 504sq m (5,425sq ft) of walkways and staircases. Applicant: the Minister of Arts, Sports and Tourism. Appellant(s): P D Gardiner.
Location: lands at Smurfit Paper Mills, Clonskeagh Road, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish on-site buildings for 130 units, coffee shop, museum and site works. Applicant: Gannon Homes Ltd. Appellant(s): Margaret Marriott and others, Richard Good, Helen Litton.
Location: corner of Guild Street and North Wall Quay, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1. Proposed development: increase height of part of Building C (known as C3, C4 and C5) from seven storeys above basement to eight storeys above basement, additional cycle spaces and associated site works. Applicant: Spencer Dock Development Co Ltd. Appellant(s): Maire Reilly, Railway Procurement Agency.
Location: south of Sherrif Street and east of Guild Street, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1. Proposed development: two additional floors to office block (Building R) and associated works. Applicant: Spencer Dock Development Co Ltd. Appellant(s): Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Railway Procurement Agency.
Location: Arcadia, Baily Green Road, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: replace two-storey split level house, car-parking and access across right of way from Baily Green Road. Applicant: Mary and John O'Connor. Appellant(s): Helen Walsh, Patrick Rowland.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Monksland, Athlone, Co Roscommon. Proposed development: demolish two houses for 166 units with a crèche, car-parking, new entrance and site works. Applicant: Oyster Homes Ltd (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 39 Mespil Road, Dublin 4 (protected structure). Proposed development: demolish extension for four-storey office with site works. Applicant: Archer Sheridan Leasing Ltd.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Applications
Location: Red Cow complex, Naas Road, Dublin 12. Proposed development: phase one - demolish exhibition and business centre (comprising business centre, exhibition room, warehouse and ancillary areas, Red Cow Hotel entrance lobby and substation). Construct six-storey car-park over semi-basement with 1,041 parking bays. New two-storey nightclub adjacent to Red Cow Inn. New hotel and conference building within surface car-parking area to the north of the hotel. This building will be 17 storeys over basement at the western corner of the site, six-storey over basement along Naas Road and a two-storey over basement wing along Turnpike Road. Hotel and conference building will include a hotel leisure centre at basement level with swimming pool, gym, saunas, steam room and treatment centre. Conference centre with main conference room, first floor gallery, foyer and bar areas, 10 meeting rooms with reception at ground floor level, restaurant and bar areas comprising ground floor hotel bar, first floor hotel restaurant and public restaurants at 15th and 16th floors. Hotel accommodation will comprise 310 bedrooms. A covered walkway between the proposed car-park and the main entrance to the new hotel and conference building; revised internal road layout; 14 taxi-parking spaces; private coach set-down areas; landscaping and external light schemes. Phase two: demolish Red Cow Hotel, restaurant and bar areas, conference/banquet suite, meeting rooms and ancillary areas for an eight-storey over basement wing with single storey conference extension to the phase one hotel and conference building and comprising a conference centre extension with second conference room, extended foyer and bar area, a business centre with eight meeting rooms, reception and ancillary areas, and additional hotel accommodation of 201 bedrooms. Applicant: Moran Hotels Ireland Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Rathfarnham Nursing Home, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Proposed development: demolish nursing home for 35 townhouses in two blocks with parking and site works. Applicant: Dr B Singh and Mrs J Singh.
FINGAL
Applications
Location: lands adjacent to Great Commons, Lusk village, Skerries Road, Lusk, Co Dublin. Proposed development: three four-bed houses, five three-bed houses, 42 two-bed apartments and three one-bed apartments in three three-and-a-half storey blocks with site works. Applicant: McGarrell Reilly Developments.
Location: Drynam Green, Feltrim, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and associated building for 34 apartments in a three-storey block with three one-beds, 22 two-beds, two two-bed duplexes, three three-beds and four three-bed duplexes with 48 car-parking spaces. Site works and landscaping. Applicant: PDK Behan.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: site fronted by Brook Lane, Rush, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish bungalow and outbuildings for 59 three-bed two and two-and-a-half storey houses, five four-bed houses, and 28 apartments. Surface car-parking for 174 cars, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Carrolls Estate Ltd.
Location: Portmarnock Golf Club, Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: upgrade staff and maintenance facility. Demolish maintenance sheds and decommission underground fuel storage tank. New service building for course machinery which includes a workshop area at ground floor with new staff facilities. New closed loop water recycling unit for washdown area. Convert staff facilities to new stores facility, instal new petrol/diesel underground storage system complete with dispensing pumps and a biocycle unit for effluent treatment. Applicant: Portmarnock Golf Club. ...
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: junction of Strand Road and Golf Links Road, Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish commercial buildings on site for mixed-use scheme. Block 1: two storeys with three retail units, funeral home at ground level and offices at first floor level. Block 2: three storeys of residential with six two-bed and two three-bed apartments. The development will also include 36 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: T Stafford & Sons Ltd.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
Applications
Location: site bounded by Deansgrange Road and dwellings in Foxrock Close to the west, Deansgrange Cemetery to the north, Macari's Takeaway to the south, Deansgrange Road, Deansgrange, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish all structures for a mixed-use development in a single building with a maximum height of five storeys all over basement car-parking for 170 cars. The development will consist of a commercial unit, two restaurants, four retail units, a crèche, a crèche café, office and plant storage at ground floor level, and 49 residential units over (five one-beds, 37 two-beds and seven three-beds). Landscaping and site works. Applicant: John McCabe senior.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Unit 1-6, Dún Laoghaire Industrial Estate, Pottery Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: three and part four-storey office building of 27 units over three floors, and 78 car-parking spaces at basement level with 14 spaces at ground level. Applicant: Bymac Project Managers Ltd.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Applications
Location: Beech Hill Drive and Beech Hill Terrace, Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Proposed development: nine two-storey three-bedroom houses in two blocks consisting of four end-terrace units and five mid-terrace units. Applicant: Beech Hill Housing Initiative.
Location: 219 Richmond Road, Fairview, Dublin 3. Proposed development: two to five-storey building with two retail units at ground floor level and 14 apartments at first to fourth floor level (six one-beds, five two-beds, one three-bed, one two-bed duplex and one three-bed duplex) with 10 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Niall Molloy.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: junction of East Wall Road, Church Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development:replace previously approved office building (Block B) with an apartment building of 80 units (six one-beds, 62 two-beds, 12 three-beds) in an eight-storey building over basement parking for 84 cars. Crèche and retail unit at ground floor level. Applicant: Collen Group Ltd.
Location: former Saronix building, Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, Clonshaugh, Dublin 17. Proposed development: demolish all buildings on site for 20 light industrial/warehouse units with 53 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: O'Mahoney Finnerty New Homes Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 30-32 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish three outbuildings and rear-most one-third of two-storey warehouse/office building (protected structures). Replace roof tiles on part of retained portion of warehouse/office building with glazing. Repair outer walls, roof trusses and roof tiling of retained portion of warehouse/office building with salvaged materials. Change of use of rear and west side of ground floor of retained warehouse/office building from mixed-use warehouse/office and ancillary uses to access to apartment scheme. Change use of front of retained warehouse/office from warehouse/office and ancillary uses to offices. Develop 90 apartments in three blocks of eight storeys over double basement with 85 car-parking spaces and 100 cycle parking spaces. The scheme will be 10 storeys over ground (12 levels). The apartments will comprise 28 one-beds, 45 two-beds and 17 three-beds. Site and landscaping works. Applicant: Princus Investment Trust.
