A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
Location: Bayside shopping centre, Bayside Square, Sutton, Dublin 13. Proposed development: demolish units (except numbers 116 and 109) for 99 apartments. Applicant: Bayside Centre Management Ltd. Appellant(s): Geoff and Catriona Bradley, Shay Duffy, chairman SOS Committee, Charles and Madeleine Fallon, Brian McCartan, Mid-Sutton Community Building Group Ltd, Bayside Centre Management Ltd.
Location: site to rear of 7-12 Victoria Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6. Proposed development:demolish garage and greenhouse for three houses with site works. Applicant: Gerry Walsh. Appellant(s): Paul O'Kelly & Ivan O'Shea, Rathgar Residents Group.
Location: Oldbridge, Rathmullen Road, Drogheda, Co Louth. Proposed development: 745 houses and apartments, crèche, carparking, and associated site development works and services. Applicant: Niall Mellon and Pat O'Reilly. Appellant(s): Mairead Crinion and Peter Ryan.
Location: Blackhall and Bleachyard, Mullingar, Co Westmeath. Proposed development: residential, retail, office, cinema, restaurants, café, fitness suite, cultural building, crèche, medical centre, parking and site works. Applicant: Rickaton (Construction) Ltd. Appellant(s): Lynnbury Terrace Residents, Blackhall Place Property Owners, IMC Cinema Group, Rickaton (Construction) Ltd, Shannon Regional Fisheries Board, Brendan Wallace and Michael J Wallace, Bernie McHugh, Dan Sullivan and Charles Fox, Niall Caffrey, Deerland Construction Ltd.
Location: Edwards Street, Baltinglass, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: demolish house for 25 apartments with site works. Applicant: M Doran, S McKelvie and J Whelan. Appellant(s): Baltinglass Community Group.
Location: Newtown, Tramore, Co Waterford. Proposed development: 155 houses with site works. Applicant: Middlethird Estates Ltd. Appellant(s): Newtown Action Group, Patsy and Phillipa Carney, Middlethird Estates Ltd.
Location: Scalaheen and Collegeland Townlands, Tipperary Town, Co Tipperary. Proposed development: 244 residential units, crèche, car-parking and site works. Applicant: Fachtna Crowley. Appellant(s): Iarnród Éireann.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: apartments 117-124 Merrion Grove, Stillorgan Road, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: amalgamate 120 and 122 for a single disabled-accessible apartment and change of use of this and six other apartments to student accommodation. Application: Stephen, Sean and Elaine Dunne (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 219 Richmond Road, Fairview, Dublin 3. Proposed development: two to five-storey building with two retail units, 14 apartments and site works. Applicant: Niall Molloy Trading as the Palmyra Co-Ownership.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: 1.3988 hectares (3.45-acre) site at St Pancras Works, Mount Tallant Avenue, Terenure, Dublin 6W. Proposed development: demolish all structures for 152 residential units, three commercial units and a crèche all in seven blocks of two to six storeys above basement car-parking (231 spaces) and 122 cycle spaces. Landscaping and site works, 18 car-parking spaces and 30 surface level cycle spaces. Applicant: Doncot Developments Ltd.
Location: Veterinary College site, Shelbourne Road and 126 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish 126 Pembroke Road and two outbuildings for three blocks from four to 15 storeys all over four-level basement. Block 1: nine storeys with offices and café unit. Block 2: four to 15 storeys with offices, nine retail units, cultural unit and 109 apartments. Block 3: six to eight storeys with offices and two retail units. Four-level basement with leisure centre, 225 car-parking spaces and 335 cycle spaces. Two public plazas and internal pedestrian streets between Pembroke Road and Shelbourne Road. Site works and landscaping. Applicant: Kintene Ltd.
Location: number 18, and site to rear of 18, 19, 20, 21 and 21A Balgriffin Park, Dublin 17, bounded to the east by the Hole in the Wall Road. Proposed development: demolish five houses, sheds and garages for 137 apartments, three retail units, crèche and 153 basement car-parking spaces. The apartments will be in five blocks from four to seven storeys. Applicant: Swiftcourt Developments Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: former Shell station on Merrion Road/Rock Road, with frontages to Merrion Road/Rock Road and Bellevue Avenue and boundaries with an adjacent burial ground and the rear gardens of properties on Trimleston Avenue and Bellevue Court, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish petrol station, and remove underground tanks and plant for 48 apartments (two one-beds, 26 two-beds and 20 three-beds) in a single building. Fifty-three car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: O'Mahony Finnerty New Homes.
Location: north of Block Eii (reg ref 1127/06) and west of Block 6 (reg ref 3846/06) off Malahide Road adjacent to hotel and apartment buildings at city junction business park, Northern Cross, Malahide Road, Dublin 17. Proposed development: new block (Block 2) of part six and part seven-storey over basement and lower basement for 107 apartments (28 one-beds, 73 two-beds and six three-beds), six retail/office units, 302 car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Spectrum Developments Ltd.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Location: townlands of Finnstown and Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 374 dwellings (127 houses and 247 apartments), 589 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Red Cow complex, Naas Road, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish exhibition and business centre for 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 north of hotel. This building will be 17 storeys over basement at the western corner, six-storey over basement along Naas Road and two-storey over basement along Turnpike Road. Hotel and conference building will include a hotel leisure centre at basement level. 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, landscaping and external light schemes. Phase two: demolish Red Cow Hotel, restaurant and bar areas, conference/banquet suites, 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, reception and ancillary areas and additional hotel accommodation of 201 bedrooms. Applicant: Moran Hotels Ireland Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: The Grange, Newcastle Road, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 14 two-storey light industrial/warehousing and office units within Blocks E, F & G to south-east of site; 112 four-storey office-based industry/office units within Blocks A, B, C & D to the north, south, south-west and west of site together with two basements (one under Block A with 79 car-parking spaces and one under Block E with 95 spaces); 500 surface car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Perwood Holdings Ltd.
Location: 1.46-hectare site at Weaver's Row, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish three houses for commercial blocks fronting Weavers Row with foodstores and four retail units, and 60 apartments in six three and four-storey blocks with 238 car-parking spaces. Close access off Weavers Row. New access to west end of site, and site works. Applicant: Aldi Stores (Ireland) Ltd.
Location: Rush and Lusk Railway Station, Effelstown, Rush, Fingal, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish five dwellings for 199 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Iarnród Éireann.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
Location: 51 & 52 Bray Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish two dwellings and outbuildings for three to five-storey building with 38 apartments, 55 basement level car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: J & T Kennedy.
Location: Ashwood Farm, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and outbuildings for 201 residential units (147 apartments in three six-storey blocks and 54 houses), crèche, 294 car-parking spaces, and site works. Applicant: Glenamuck Developments Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 12 hectare site in townlands of Murphystown and Woodside, Stepaside, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 749 residential units (616 apartments in 28 blocks up eight storeys, seven three-bed townhouses and 126 houses in two/three-storey buildings), community centre, crèche, clubhouse, café, 10 retail units, 1,317 car-parking spaces, 770 cycle spaces, and site works. Applicant: P Elliott and Co Ltd.
