Planning list
AN BORD PLEANALA
APPEALS
Location: Cornelscourt House (protected structure), Bray Rd, Foxrock, D18. Proposed development: Erect 22 apartments with developed roof space, over basement car-park, four houses, widening of vehicular access, new pedestrian access and ancillary site works. Applicant: Strandsend Ltd. Appellant(s): Foxrock Area Development Ltd, Irish Georgian Society, Tom and Rose Field, Catherine and William O'Riordan.
Location: Baumann's Yard, site off Old Dublin Rd, rear of Woodlands Drive, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Mixed use residential and retail scheme. Applicant: Myrmidon (Propco) Ltd. Appellant(s): Tom and Marian Bolger and others, Woodlands (Stillorgan) Residents Association, St Laurence's Park and Old Dublin Road Residents Association.
Location: 2 Haddington Rd, D4. Proposed development: Erect a four-storey mixed-use building with a restaurant, kitchens, classrooms, library, conference room, offices and new entrance from Baggot St Bridge (protected structure) and associated works. Applicant: E Memory, C Mohan and L Mohan. Appellant(s): Pembroke Rd Association.
Location: Old Kingswood, Old Naas Rd, Clondalkin, D22. Proposed development: Integrated scheme of 60 residential units and three retail/commercial units in five blocks with 102 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Tim Costello. Appellant(s): Siobhan and Dean Brady, Patrick Mulvany, Tim Costello, Bernard and Geraldine Karstel, Kingswood Residents Association.
Location: Rinawade House, Leixlip, Co Kildare. Proposed development: Erect 36 apartments and 26 houses and associated works. Applicant: Michael Finnegan. Appellants: Councillor Catherine Murphy, Michael Finnegan.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Lighting and Electrical Distribution Group Ltd (between 15 & 17 Moran Rd), Walkinstown, D12. Proposed development: Demolish factory and construct 45 dwellings with car-parking and all associated site works. Applicant: Michael Slein (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Whitehall Tower, 28A Whitehall Rd, D14. Proposed development: Outline permission to demolish house and construct 11 houses with car-parking and ancillary site works on site adjacent to the Bottle Towers (protected structure). Applicant: George A Slater.
Location: Foxhunter Bar and Restaurant, Ballydowd, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Change of use from off-licence to proposed betting office. Applicant: Frank Towey Ltd.
Location: Milverton Demesne and Home Farm, Skerries, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Integrated tourism/recreational facility. Demolish two houses and erect a hotel of 100 two-bed suites and 50 bedrooms with restaurants, bars, leisure pool/gym and spa treatment rooms, function and conference facilities in three blocks. Two 18-hole golf courses. A nine-hole putting course and short game academy. Golf club house with changing facilities, bar, restaurant, pro shop in a two-storey building, 28 detached two-storey five/six-bed houses and two five/six-bed houses as replacement for two habitable houses to be demolished. Erect 20 two/three-bed houses, a single storey golf course/estate maintenance building. Convert home farm buildings to stables/livery yard. Convert five gate lodges from residential for use as administration office, security offices, golf professionals office and green keepers accommodation. Convert two-storey outbuildings to provide staff accommodation and offices, 617 car-parking spaces and six coach-parking spaces. Applicant: Tamorbrick Ltd.
Location: Charlestown North, Finglas, D11. Proposed development: Erect a five/six-storey hotel with 250 bedrooms, conference facilities, meeting rooms, multi-purpose room, restaurant/cafés, bars, health and fitness facility and ancillary accommodation. Applicant: CT Partnership.
Location: Ballymun Cross/Old Ballymun Rd, Santry, D9. Proposed development: Erect five/six-storey mixed-use scheme over basement car-parking to consist of four commercial units and a public house/restaurant on the ground floor, 58 student accommodation units above (41 three-beds, 13 four-beds and four six-beds) and associated site works. Applicant: D & C Taylor Spionkop.
Location: Nevinstown West, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect discount foodstore, four retail service units, a fitness/leisure centre, crèche, medical centre and café with 139 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Aldi Stores (Ireland) Ltd.
Location: Kinsealy Lane, Malahide, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Outline planning permission to erect nine four-bed detached houses on individual sites and full planning permission to erect 322 dwellings (64 three-bed terraced houses, 150 two-bed apartments in 25 three-storey pavilion blocks, 96 two-bed and 12 one-bed apartments in six three-storey apartment blocks each containing 18 apartments). Erect a single storey crèche and two retail shops. Demolish barn and two green houses on lands. Applicant: Birchwell Ltd.
Location: White House, New Pk, The Ward, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect a 16-bed hotel extension in one single two-storey building to the rear of premises and the provision of 16 additional car-parking spaces and site development works. Applicant: Simon Rutledge.
Location: River Rd, Castleknock, D15. Proposed development: Outline permission to erect three single storey detached residential units, one single storey office unit, one single storey doctor/dentist surgery and a single storey community meeting room with surface car-parking and site development works. Applicant: David Donnelly.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE-RATHDOWN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Former Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Co Co Depot, Georges Place, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Mixed residential and commercial scheme of 62 apartments, commercial unit, four communal roof gardens, ESB substation and switch room, ancillary stores, bicycle parking and refuse storage areas, arranged in a single block of part three, four and five floors over basement car-parking (64 spaces), and associated site works. Applicant: Castlepark Construction Ltd.
Location: Lands on Enniskerry Rd, Newtown Little, Stepaside, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Erect 491 dwelling units in a development of six six-storey apartment blocks over podium with 366 apartments (125 one-beds, 199 two-beds and 42 three-beds) and seven four-storey terraced duplex blocks including a five-storey and a six-storey corner element with 125 units (nine own-door one-beds, 33 one-bed apartments, 52 two-bed apartments and 31 three-bed apartments). Car-parking and associated site development works. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction & Park Developments Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Eagle House, Vico Rd, Killiney, Co Dublin. Proposed development: Demolish post office and associated residential units and develop into a scheme of three own-door apartments of three-storeys (two two-beds and one three-bed) with integral garages for three cars. Applicant: Una Quaide.
SOUTH DUBLIN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, incorporating The National Children's Hospital, D24. Proposed development: Erect a single storey medical day care clinic with a link from hospital. Applicant: Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, incorporating The National Children's Hospital.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: South Circular Rd, adjacent to Rehoboth Place, the Coombe Maternity Hospital, St Teresa's Gardens, Donore Ave & St Catherine's Ave, South Circular Rd, D8. Proposed development: A 10-year planning permission for a mixed use scheme to consist of demolition of administration/theatre building, Bailey Gibson offices and all warehousing and storage structures except the John Player building and a two-storey building adjacent to 39 Rehoboth Place, where partial demolitions and alterations will occur. Scheme includes 15 buildings from one to 28 storeys and consists of 879 apartments, offices, retail units, neighbourhood shop, store, restaurant/café, medical centre and building, leisure facility, national climbing centre, live/work units and a theatre. Provision for 1,126 underground car-parking spaces and 1,200 bicycle spaces. Applicant: National Association of Building Co-operatives (NABCO) Society Ltd.
Location: South Bank Rd, Ringsend, D4, bounded by Sean Moore Pk on the south-west, the former Irish Glass Bottle Co lands to the north-west and Sandymount Strand to the south-east. Proposed development: Permission for a mixed scheme on 4.9-hectare site to consist of 16 blocks comprising 93,114 sq m (1,002,270 sq ft) of floor area and 24,700 sq m (265,868 sq ft)of basement car-parking in five mixed-use blocks, five residential blocks, five office blocks and one retail pavilion. The development will consist of 783 apartments (82 three-beds, 505 two-beds, 196 one-beds), 21,804 sq m (234,696 sq ft) of office space, 2,602 sq m (28,008 sq ft) of retail space and 1,353 sq m (14,563 sq ft) of other uses (crèche, bar and restaurant). The development will also include landscaping balconies and roof terraces, service and ancillary and car-parking areas. Applicant: Fabrizia Developments.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Old Wesley RFC & Leinster Branch IRFU, Donnybrook Rd, D4. Proposed development: Demolition of obsolete buildings within site and the construction of a new three-storey over semi-basement premises. The new building to comprise changing and training facilities shared by both parties, hospitality/entertainment suite for Leinster Branch, offices for Leinster Branch and Old Wesley RFC, multi-purpose function facilities for use by Old Wesley members and guests for social and entertainment purposes, new terraces and seating to pitch, and new link staircase between the new and existing building. The Old Wesley clubhouse will be renovated with the upgrading and improving of recreation facilities on both lower ground and upper ground floors with the existing envelope, the alteration of exits and entrances and the provision of a new attached two-storey entrance building to site at Donnybrook Rd, D4. Applicant: Old Wesley RFC and Leinster Branch IRFU.
Location: Mercer Court, Noel Purcell Walk, D2. Proposed development: Permission for a two-storey extension creating a height of six storeys to the student accommodation building. Applicant: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Location: Leinster Branch IRFU Rugby Grounds, Donnybrook Rd, Donnybrook, D4. Proposed development: A seven-year permission for development for a mixed-use redevelopment to consist of the demolition of Bective Rangers Football and Bective Lawn Tennis Clubhouse and the main viewing stand. The development will also consist of the provision of 10,042 sq m (108,091 sq ft) of residential accommodation comprising 111 apartments distributed between eight blocks arranged on three sites. The development will also consist of a new three-storey clubhouse on site 4, including a gymnasium, ancillary offices, function rooms, kitchens, bars and the provision of ancillary toilets, staff and storage areas. A television/media press box will be located in the proposed clubhouse for the purpose of providing media coverage of games. Construct a new main viewing stand, the provision of two entrance stiles from Donnybrook Rd onto the site, additional concrete terracing on the north-west, north-east and south-east sides of the main rugby pitch, the provision of four tennis courts, a half practice court and associated lighting. The proposal also includes the provision of cycle parking and 116 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Leinster Branch IRFU.
Location: 135-143 Francis St and 72 Thomas St, D8. Proposed development: Demolish Tivoli Theatre and construct 130 apartments, retail units, offices, licensed theatre/venue and 60 car-parking spaces and 130 cycle spaces. Applicant: Anthony L Byrne.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 85 Templeogue Rd, Terenure, D6W. Proposed development: Demolish house, garage and outhouses and construct a five-storey block consisting of 40 apartments situated at the rear of the site comprising 10 one-beds, 26 two-beds, three three-beds and one four-bed unit. Erect a four-storey block of 15 apartments which faces onto Templeogue Rd and will consist of three floors plus a penthouse level over a basement and containing four one-beds, nine two-beds, one three-bed unit and one four-bed unit, associated site works and landscaping. Applicant: Sheeling McSharry (Bushy Park) Ltd.
Compiled by Mary Hetherington
