Things to look out for in your area
Jordan appeals holiday centre
Film director Neil Jordan has been granted leave to appeal plans for a holiday centre beside his property Waterfall House in Castletownbere, Co Cork.
Last year he successfully challenged plans for 67 holiday homes, a bar, restaurant, swimming pool and marina at the former Wheel Inn which has been vacant for some time. Jordan appealed the scheme saying it would "facilitate intrusions" to his "legitimate desire for privacy".
However, a new proposal was granted permission by Cork County Council for 41 holiday homes, a clubhouse, swimming pool and holiday centre beside his home. Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, an adjoining landowner who did not make submissions or observations in relation to a planning application may apply to the board for leave of appeal within four weeks of a decision to grant permission.
Discount store turned down
An Bord Pleanála has overturned a decision by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to allow a discount foodstore at the junction of Grange Road and Stonemason's Way (the GlaxoSmithKlein site) in Rathfarnham.
Four parties including Grange Wood Residents Association and Marlay Wood Residents Association appealed the planning permission.
Dabiza Properties Ltd, whose directors are Kurt Rosen and Patrick Kaudewitz, were turned down on the grounds that the supermarket would "create an unsustainable pattern of retail development and would not serve as an anchor for a local/district centre as envisaged in the Retail Planning Guidelines".
Time up for pub clock
The Horse Show public house has lost another planning battle. It has been refused permission by Dublin City Council to retain an advertisement clock to the front of its premises at Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, D4 because it "adds to the clutter on the facades, is visually obtrusive and detrimental to the scale and character of the existing building, and would seriously detract from the setting of the adjoining and neighbouring structures".
The owners, James Madigan and Sons, lost a four-year planning battle last year when An Bord Pleanála refused permission to knock the landmark bar at 34-36 Merrion Road, opposite the RDS, and build a five-storey office block, following an appeal by An Taisce.
