A selective guide to developments in your area.
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
APPEALS
Location: Weston Aerodrome, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: temporary use of lands as a park and ride facility. Applicant: Ryder Cup Ltd. Appellant(s): Pat and Carol Kearney.
Location: Croke Park Stadium, Jones Road, Nally Square, St Joseph's Avenue, North Richmond Street and Richmond Lane, Dublin 1 and Dublin 3. Proposed development: section of floodlights with associated generators. Applicant: Pairc na Chrocaigh Teoranta. Appellant(s): chairperson Croke Park Area Residents Alliance, Iona and District Residents Association.
Location: 40-42 Hill Street, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish structures on site for 35 dwellings and one retail unit in three blocks with all associated site works. Applicant: Sini Holdings Ltd. Appellant(s): Sini Holdings Ltd, Tom and Adelaide McKeown, Headfort Court Management Company Ltd.
Location: Rossmore, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork. Proposed development: quarry to extract sand, gravel, limestone, sand and gravel washing/screening plant, rock crusher, office, electrical building, weighbridge, wheelwash, diesel/waste oil tanks and all associated site works. Applicant: Healy Brothers Ltd. Appellant(s): Paul Fane, John Kearney, Michael Aylward, Frederick W Powell, Edward Doyle, Peter and Caragh Thompson, John Joe and Caroline Harte.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 63 Howth Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish buildings for two blocks of three and four storeys for 34 apartments and all ancillary works. Applicant: Sweeney and Forte Motors Ltd (with revised conditions).
Location: the Presbytery, Cookstown Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: demolish bungalow for 13 units (six apartments and seven houses) with access from Cookstown Road and all associated works. Applicant: KGM Properties Ltd (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Tower Yard, Killiney Hill Road, Killiney, Co Dublin. Proposed development: two-storey house with undercroft car-parking and stores, within the curtilage of Martello Tower (protected structure - previously approved ref: D00A/0373). Applicant: Niall O'Donoghue.
Location: Wynnstay, Clonskeagh Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: change of use from offices to dwelling, demolish side and rear extension for extension to rear of house (protected structure), and erect nine houses with car-parking and associated site works. Applicant: Mark Cassin and Cathal Mallon.
Location: Adamstown Court, Adamstown Road, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proximate to Grifeen Lodge (protected structure). Proposed development: 17-bedroom guesthouse with 17 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Sean and Catherine Greary.
Location: Lealetter, Moycullen, Co Galway. Proposed development: windfarm with six turbines, transformers, substation, control building, meteorological mast and associated works. Applicant: Cruachan Wind Energy Ltd.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
APPLICATIONS
Location: site of 1.61 hectares forming part of the lands at Our Lady's Grove Primary and Secondary School, Goatstown Road, Goatstown, Dublin 14. The site area includes Roebuck Grove House (Goatstown House) and a prefab classroom and is bounded by the Goatstown Road to the east; school lands, with Roebuck Downs residential estate to the north; school lands with residences on Friarsland Road to the west; and residences on Larchfield Road and Friarsland Avenue to the south. Proposed development: 109 residential units (30 one-bed, 64 two-bed and 15 three-bed apartments) in four blocks and a residential institutional building (convent) with 176 car-parking spaces, associated landscaping and site works. Applicant: The Goatstown Partnership and the Religious of Jesus and Mary.
Location: former Softco site, east side of the South County Business Park, off Leopardstown Road, Leopardstown, Dublin 18. Proposed development: aparthotel in three blocks of seven storeys with a four-storey element and rising to nine and 10 storeys at opposite ends of the site consisting of 177 units, reception area, restaurant/dining area, gym/fitness centre, bar and restaurant, 197 car-parking spaces, 55 bicycle parking spaces, site development works and landscaping. Applicant: Edencastle Developments Ltd.
Location: site of industrial stone works and adjacent residence at Tapton, Murphystown Road, Sandyford, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish all industrial buildings and residence for a mixed-use development in three blocks comprising 93 apartments and commercial premises. Block A: 59 apartments in a three and part four-storey block. Block B: 24 apartments and 300sq m (3,229sq ft) of commercial premises. Block C: 10 apartments. Provision of 93 car-parking spaces at basement level with 10 surface car-parking spaces, associated landscaping and site development works. Applicant: Thomas Murphy.
FINGAL
APPLICATIONS
Location: north-west Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 75 residential units and a crèche on two sites within overall development. Area one: 75 units in a mix of apartments, duplexes, semi-detached and terraced dwellings with 126 car-parking spaces, site development and landscaping works, including public open space and provision of a bus lay-by. Area two: crèche, 11 car-parking spaces, site development works and landscaping. Applicant: The Parkway Partnership.
Location: junction of Strand Road and Carrickhill Road, Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: mixed-use development on a site of 0.4 hectares on the western side of the junction of Strand Road and Carrickhill Road. Demolish six structures on site for a three-storey residential and retail development to consist of three apartments at penthouse level, eight two-storey mews houses to the rear of the site, two retail units and a coffee shop, 32 residential units comprising eight townhouses, three two-bedroom duplexes, eight three-bedroom apartments, 10 two-bedroom apartments and three one-bedroom apartments with 73 car-parking spaces at basement level. Applicant: Carrick Hill Developments Ltd.
Location: 17-18 West Pier, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish single storey building to the south-west of the site for a two-storey building comprising restaurant and kitchen at ground floor, offices and ancillary facilities at first floor, single storey extension to existing building for use related to fish processing plant, new fence at rear and new shop front, existing ground floor shop and fish processing plant to be retained. Applicant: Ivan Beshoff Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Harbour Road/50 Church Street, Howth, Co Dublin. Proposed development: partial replacement of bar at ground floor level, extension to restaurant at first floor and eight apartments - three at second floor, three at third floor and two at roof level with eight car-parking spaces. Applicant: Mainframe Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: site to the south of Ridgewood, Forest Road, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 10 two-storey four-bedroom terraced houses; 16 three-storey duplexes each containing one one-bed apartment and one three-bed apartment with associated surface parking (32 dwellings in total); one three-storey plus penthouse apartment block with 15 two-bed, 13 three-bed and two four-bed apartments with associated surface car-parking; one three-storey plus penthouse block containing 14 two-bed and four three-bed apartments with surface car-parking; one six-storey penthouse block with a crèche at ground floor level, five one-bed, six two-bed and six three-bed apartments and all associated site works. Applicant: Gerard Gannon.
Location: Forest Great, Rathmingle Road, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: block of apartments with 15 two-beds and six one-beds in three-storey block with 20 basement car-parking spaces. Applicant: Noel Smyth.
SOUTH DUBLIN
APPLICATIONS
Location: 3-21 Greenhills Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish 10 semis for a five-storey and a four-storey building with six retail units at ground floor level, 73 apartments (14 one-beds, 50 two-beds and nine three-beds), communal landscaped courtyards, seven surface level car-parking spaces with 75 basement level car-parking spaces. Applicant: Thomas Byrne.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
APPLICATIONS
Location: site known as Hickey's Fabrics and includes Parkgate House (43 Parkgate Street), Dublin 8. The site is bounded by Parkgate Street to the north and the River Liffey to the south and is at the junction of Sean Heuston Bridge and Parkgate Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: relocate, refurbish and repair a stone archway (protected structure) from its position on Parkgate Street to south-west of its position for use as a pedestrian access to a crèche, semi-private open space area and emergency access to site. Provision of a break in the River Liffey Quay Wall (protected structure) to the south of the site for a public plaza that will overhang the river. Refurbish and repair a turret (protected structure) to the eastern end of site and incorporate it into the development. Refurbish and repair Square Tower (protected structure) on the river front of the site. Demolish all other structures on site for office block fronting Parkgate Street, two connecting blocks in an "L" shape with frontage to Parkgate Street and the River Liffey of seven to nine storeys to accommodate 139 residential units (four live/work units, 21 one-beds, 113 two-beds and five three-beds), a crèche and two retail units at ground level, restaurant/café, four own-door duplex office units. New civic spaces including a pedestrianised street from Parkgate Street to the river ending in a public plaza. Provision of 159 basement car-parking spaces, 215 cycle spaces, site development works and landscaping. Applicant: Hickey & Company Ltd.
Location: 12 Oakley Road (protected structure), Ranelagh, Dublin 6. Proposed development: convert house from seven self-contained residential units to a single dwelling. Demolish two-storey and single storey extensions to rear for new two-storey over basement rear extension. Erect single storey indoor pool to the rear, single storey studio apartment and garden shed. Applicant: D & M FitzGerald.
Location: 765D(1), 765D(2) and 765E, South Circular Road, Islandbridge, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish garage for a six-storey block of 58 apartments. Block A will comprise of 33 units (21 three-beds, four two-beds and eight one-beds) with basement car-parking for 21 cars. Refurbish and change of use of three-storey protected structure, Block B, from warehouse to residential comprising three apartments with associated works. Erect nine-storey apartment block (Block C) comprising 16 apartments (eight three-beds, six two-beds and two one-beds). Refurbish and change of use of the three-storey protected structure, Block D, from warehouse to residential comprising six apartments (one three-bed, two two-beds and three one-beds). Provision of eight surface level car-parking spaces, associated site and landscaping works. Applicant: Michael Gray.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 20-22 (Annesley Motors), 22B, 23, 24 and 25 and commercial premises at 26 Ballybough Road, Ballybough, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish car showroom, offices and associated structures for a six-storey building with 73 car-parking spaces at basement level, six ground floor retail/commercial units, 12 medical consultancy rooms/media-related business units at first floor level, 46 apartments (36 two-beds, seven one-beds and three three-beds) at second to fifth floor levels, four two-storey townhouses, landscaping and site development works. Applicant: Maybourne Company.
Location: Donaghmede shopping centre, Grange Road, Donaghmede, Dublin 13. Proposed development: two-storey extension and associated internal modifications to centre to comprise a ground floor extension of 2,635sq m (28,363sq ft) to consist of a retail extension divided into two units. Relocate Donaghmede Inn pub within a new extension. First floor extension of 1,945sq m (20,936sq ft) of retail space divided into six units, 770sq m (8,288sq ft) of administration facilities, and a new library. Change of use of library and administration space to retail space at first floor level within shopping centre. Some 637 new car-parking spaces in multi-storey block with additional re-arranged ground level parking on site at 270 - total parking spaces on site will be 907. Applicant: Lindat Ltd.
