Watch this space:Plans to demolish Kilmardinny Inn in Santry, north Dublin, to make way for a mixed-use scheme are due to be lodged with Dublin City Council.
Michael and Peter Kenny, in conjunction with Heligan Ltd (run by Ian and Helga McDonnell), are looking to develop the Kilmardinny Inn and the neighbouring Supervalu shop on Lorcan Avenue, Dublin 9. The scheme will involve the construction of 94 apartments, two retail units and a crèche in two blocks from three to five storeys.
A new pub with beer garden, restaurant, 11 retail/office units and 219 car-parking spaces will also be provided at the 0.8-hectare site.
Bord rejects plan for Foxrock gate-lodge
A proposal to build a gate-lodge at Grove House on Hainault Road in Foxrock, Dublin 18, has been refused by An Bord Pleanála.
Jacqueline Leahy was looking for permission to build a single-storey house at the site. The Leahy family bought Grove House on three acres for €6.3 million but were unsuccessful in their bid to secure permission for 46 apartments and eight terraced townhouses, as well as a gate-lodge on stilts. They were later granted permission to re-configure a 2.5-storey extension to Grove House to provide eight apartments and build nine detached houses in the grounds.
Last year, the board refused permission for a separate application for a gate-lodge on the same site on the grounds that it would result in overdevelopment and would be prejudicial to the preservation of trees that form a significant feature of the landscape.
The board has now refused permission for a smaller house, saying that it would lead to the over development of the Grove House site and would result in the loss of public open space intended to serve the residents of the redeveloped Grove House.
Bord says yes to 40 mews-style houses in Dundrum
Dorville Homes has been given permission to build a residential development in the walled garden of Gort Ard, a former Carmelite house, in Dundrum, Dublin 14.
The company, in conjunction with O'Malley Homes, is already developing over 500 high-end apartments at a neighbouring site called Wyckham Point on Wyckham Way. Dorville's new plans will involve 40 mews-style homes and seven units to be built in farm outbuildings.
