Planning & Development

An Bord Pleanála

APPEALS

Location: 18 Exchange Street Upper, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish structures for a 12-storey 44-room hotel. Applicant: Accol Investments Ltd. Appellant(s): Colm MacEochaidh, An Taisce.

Location: 30-33 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 (protected structure). Proposed development: demolish office space to rear for a five-storey office; change of use to retail of part of ground floor and site works. Applicant: The O'Shea Partnership. Appellant(s): Miley and Miley Hurstview Ltd and the Molesworth Partnership, The O'Shea Partnership, Spinoff Ltd.

Location: Muldowneys Lounge/Bar, Main Street, Rathcoole, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish pub, business centre, cottages and outbuildings for seven houses, 68 apartments, a pub and two retail/food stores. Applicant: Frank and Mark Smith. Appellant(s): Department of Defence.

Location: The Glen, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish house and outbuildings for 49 apartments with site works. Applicant: James Rossiter. Appellant(s): Ian Murphy.

Location: land at Aiken Village, the house formally known as Greenacres, Hillcrest Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish house for 146 apartments with car-parking, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Highland Estates Ltd. Appellant(s): Phillip and Louise Volschenk and Georgina Kickham.

Location: Assumption Convent, Assumption Court, Mount Argus Road, Dublin 6W. Proposed development: demolish convent building and garage for 15 apartments with site works. Applicant: Little Sisters of the Assumption. Appellant(s): Residents of Church Park Avenue.

Location: former Shell station, Parnell Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 19 apartments and a medical consultants office. Applicant: Mark Carroll and Vincent Byrne. Appellant(s): Josephine Kelly.

Location: University Hall, Hatch Street Lower, Dublin 2. Proposed development: refurbish and change of use from residential/educational to residential use, comprising the demolition of existing section and erection of a six-storey building and 36 apartments. Applicant: Edward Residential Assets Ltd. Appellant(s): Fr M Curry, S.J. Superior, John O'Keeffe S.J. Superior.

Location: Alexandra College, Milltown Road, Dublin 6. Proposed development: two-storey over semi-basement building comprising sports hall, associated facilities and site works. Applicant: The Council of Alexandra College. Appellant(s): Sandra Coughlan, Marion Masterson, The Council of Alexandra College.

Location: north-eastern portion of former Bray Golf Club lands and part of Industrial Yarns site, Bray, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 348 residential units, retail, car-parking, demolition of outbuildings, new access off the Dublin Road and site works. Applicant: Pizarro Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Joanne Connolly, Pizarro Developments, Zapi Properties Ltd.

Location: former Bray Golf Club lands, Bray, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: 603 residential units with community and commercial elements. Applicant: Pizarro Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Joanne Connolly, S.W.A.P, Pizarro Developments Ltd, Bray Retail Group, Maeve and Colm McCormack, Bryan Glynn and Emer Woodfull, Declan and Celia Lavelle, Zapi Properties Ltd, Ciaran O'Brian.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: National Autoparts and O'Brien Ltd, Camac Close, Emmet Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 126 apartments, four live/work units, retail and site works. Applicant: The Camac Close Partnership (with revised conditions).

Location: phase two, Cornerpark, Newcastle, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 98 houses, 23 apartments, five duplex units, crèche and Montessori buildings with 195 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Opus Developments Ltd (with revised conditions).

Location: Coolamber, Lock Road, Finnstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house for 59 houses, 17 apartments and site works. Applicant: Niall Molloy T/A Finnstown Co Ownership (with revised conditions).

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: Ards, Cartref and Foxley, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish Cartref and Ards and associated outhouses for 127 apartments, penthouses and duplex units in four buildings with underground car-parking for 139 cars and 35 surface parking spaces. Block 1: two storeys with 34 residential units. Block 2: three and part four storeys with 27 units. Block 3: five storeys with 42 residential units. Block 4: four storeys with 24 residential units. The development will also include a wellness centre. The existing house at "Foxley" is to be retained and the rear garden to be shortened. Applicant: The CARDS Partnership.

Location: Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18. Proposed development: 82 residential units in a building from five to eight storeys. The residential units will comprise 14 one-beds, 56 two-beds and 12 three-beds). Provision of a 156sq m (1,679sq ft) crèche building and 134 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Cornick Developments Ltd.

Location: Castle Court, Whitehall Road, Churchtown, Dublin 14. Proposed development: detached three-storey apartment building comprising 20 units (six one-beds, nine two-beds and five three-beds); 27 car-parking spaces at basement level and site works. Applicant: Kellyville Ltd.

Location: Texaco Service Station, Churchtown Road Upper, Dublin 14. Proposed development: medical centre and pharmacy with 11 car-parking spaces at surface level and 38 car-parking spaces at basement level. The 327sq m (3,520sq ft) medical centre will comprising eight treatment rooms and 157sq m (1,690sq ft) of pharmacy use at ground floor level, 180sq m (1,938sq ft) of dental/medical treatment use comprising four treatment rooms, 120sq m (1,292sq ft) physiotherapy studio with four physiotherapy rooms and a 60sq m (646sq ft) work-out studio at first floor level and two open-plan offices. Associated site works. Applicant: M Cox, R Power, A Mehtar and M Mehigan.

Location: Leigh House and Arcot on the corner of Newtownpark Avenue and Holly Park Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish two houses for a three-storey apartment block with 18 units (three one-beds, 10 two-beds and five three-beds). Provision of 23 car-parking spaces. Applicant: William Montgomery and Vincent Marsland.

Dublin City Council

APPLICATIONS

Location: 10-12 Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish three-storey office building for an office block from one to six storeys all over one lower ground and one basement level. Office space from lower ground floor to fifth floor level. Provision of 15 car-parking spaces at basement level; courtyard at ground floor level and sunken courtyard at lower ground; landscaping and site works. Applicant: Irish Property Unit Management Services.

Location: site at junction of Balfe Road, Drimnagh Road and Walkinstown Road, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish two bank buildings and two factory buildings for a two-storey bank fronting onto Walkinstown Road, a two-storey supermarket fronting onto Walkinstown Road and Balfe Road with parking, 45 apartments (eight one-beds, 31 two-beds and six three-beds) and 150 car-parking spaces. The scheme is from three to five storeys. Applicant: Dundalk SRH Ltd.

Location: 12/13 Dorset Street Upper, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish 12 Upper Dorset Street (protected structure) - gable and front façade to be retained - and complete demolition of 13 Upper Dorset Street for a residential/medical consultant use in a five-storey block with eight two-bed apartments. Applicant: Shane Murphy.

Location: 1-3 East Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: total of 69,777sq m (751,073sq ft) comprising a hotel, offices, retail and café/restaurant in four blocks from four to 15 storeys. Block A: six-storey building with 165-bedroom hotel with restaurant, bar, meeting room and conference room. Block B: 15-storey building with retail floor space, café/restaurant facilities, office reception area, ancillary areas and offices. Block C: eight storeys with a restaurant, offices, reception area, auditorium, staff canteen, ancillary areas and office accommodation. Block D: four/six storeys with a central atrium incorporating office reception area, ancillary areas and offices. The four blocks will be above a shared two-storey basement car-park with 770 spaces. Applicant: Villeer Developments.

Location: site designated as 5B Shangan Avenue, bounded by Shangan Green to the north, Shangan Gardens to the east, Whitcare Park and residential estate to the south, 1-56 Shangan Avenue, Ballymun, Dublin 9. Proposed development: 57 residential units from one to three storeys and consisting of 25 apartments, one duplex and 31 terraced houses. Provision of 85 car-parking spaces at surface level, site and landscaping works. Applicant: Ballymun Regeneration Ltd.

South Dublin

APPLICATIONS

Location: Woodstown Manor, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Proposed development: 100 retirement units within four three-storey blocks; three two-storey blocks and 25 single storey units. The accommodation comprises 59 two-bed retirement units, four one-bed units, 12 two-bed duplex units and 25 two-bed single storey detached and semi-detached units. Refurbish Woodstown Manor and new build single storey extension to provide ancillary facilities, restaurant, health and well being centre. Provision of 155 surface car-parking spaces. The demolition of single storey derelict house and outbuildings. Applicant: Mountbrook Group.

Fingal

APPLICATIONS

Location: Rowlestown, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 40 dwellings comprising 23 three-bed semis, two three-bed detached bungalows, seven four-bed semis, five four-bed detached houses, three five-bed detached houses, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Eastern Homes Ltd.

DECISION TO GRANT

Location: Deerpark House and Fawn Lodge, Castleknock Road, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish house and outhouses/stables for a three-storey block with 18 apartments (five two-beds and one three-bed at ground floor, first floor and second floor level). Car-parking, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Fiancon Builders Ltd.

DECISION TO REFUSE

Location: townland of Lanestown, Donabate, Co Dublin. Proposed development: warehousing distribution centre with 66,629sq m (717,188sq ft) to include administration offices, training centre, meeting rooms, communication rooms, rest rooms, kitchen and restaurant. Provision of 595 car-parking spaces; 252 truck/trailer parking spaces; 61 loading docks; 27,000-litre diesel oil tank and 36,000-litre gas oil tanks; vehicle maintenance building; workshop/battery charging area; site security building; landscaping and boundary treatment. Applicant: Dunnes Stores.

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