One of Ireland’s best-selling writers and the country’s current Laureate for Irish Fiction, Anne Enright, has lost out in a planning battle with neighbours in the Dublin seaside town of Sandycove.
This follows An Bord Pleanála giving the go-ahead to neighbours of Enright and her husband, Martin Murphy, Peter and Liz Miller to proceed with their plan to demolish a two-storey three-bedroom home and construct a new two-storey mews house in Sandycove.
The Millers’ property is located next door to Enright’s listed protected structure.
The appeals board ruled that the Miller development “would integrate in a satisfactory manner with the existing built development in the area, would not detract from the character or setting of nearby protected structures and would adequately protect the residential amenity of adjacent property”.
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council gave the plan the go-ahead earlier this year and Enright and Mr Murphy had appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála.
