Capel Developments has been refused planning permission for 224 apartments and an underground car-park with 248 spaces on the site of the National College of Ireland at Sandford Road in Ranelagh, Dublin 6. The city planners have ruled that the scheme does not allow for sufficient open space or car-parking facilities. They also found that the overall density of 160 bed spaces per acre (as against 115 in Mount St Anne's in Milltown) was excessive and that the distance between the main four-storey apartment block and existing two-storey houses on Merton Drive was insufficient. The National College is due to relocate to a a site on part of the 12-acre extension to the International Financial Services Centre in the Dublin docklands.