Council rejects U2 apartment development in docklandsU2's plans for a luxury €36 million apartment development at Sir John Rogerson's Quay under the name Princus Investment Trust has been rejected by Dublin City Council.
The council decided that the 10-storey height of the three proposed blocks of the 90-unit development, and the proximity of these blocks to one another, would mean the proposed development "would read as an excessively bulky, squat and visually inelegant response to the development of this site when viewed from the surrounding area, including from the north docklands area, the city quays and from Pearse Square to the south". It also said the scheme would constitute overdevelopment of the site and have a significant negative impact on the amenity of potential residential occupiers of the development and of adjoining properties. The council criticised one block which comprised of "entirely single aspect units accessed off a single long internal corridor".
The council also wasn't satisfied that exceptional circumstances had been demonstrated to warrant the part-demolition of a warehouse building on the site, which is a protected structure, and which the developer intended to be used as an entrance into the apartment block.
Red Cow redevelopment plan includes 17-storey element
Hotelier Tom Moran has submitted a planning application to South Dublin County Council to demolish part of the Red Cow complex on the Naas Road in Dublin 12 and build a new hotel, nightclub and conference centre in two phases.
The first phase will involve demolishing the exhibition and business centre and the hotel entrance lobby, and building a six-storey car-park over semi-basement with over 1,000 parking bays. Moran is looking to build a new hotel and conference building within the existing surface car-parking area which would rise to 17 storeys over basement at the western corner of the site. The phase one, 310-room hotel and conference building will include a hotel leisure centre at basement level with a swimming pool, gym, sauna, steam room, treatment centre and conference centre.
Earlier this year An Bord Pleanála rejected Moran's plans to build a hotel and spa in the foothills of the Dublin mountains. His company, Caspian Country Investments, had sought to build a 250-bedroom hotel at a site formerly known as Jennings Lands in the townlands of Balally and Ticknock in Sandyford.
