The National Wax Museum at the corner of Dorset Street and Granby Row will be demolished and replaced by a 118-bed hotel, if a planning application to Dublin City Council by its owner Westmeath Fianna Fail deputy Donie Cassidy is successful.

The plan would involve knocking the 1,768 sq m (19,030 sq ft) building on Granby Row which has housed the exhibition of wax figures since 1983 and rebuilding it as a hotel.

There was a suggestion that the wax museum would be located at basement and ground floor level of the new structure but there is no mention of this on the planning application

The proposed hotel is seven storey over a basement car-park with a restaurant and bar. Donie Cassidy also owns an 88-bed hotel on Cavendish Row, near Parnell Square, and the Celtic Note, a Celtic music store on Nassau Street in Dublin.