A selective guide to development in your area.
An Bord Pleanála
APPEALS
Location: 198 204 Gracepark Road, Dublin 9. Proposed development: demolish 198 and 204 Gracepark Road for eight dwellings and 22 apartments. Applicant: Tiffen Development Ltd. Appellant(s): Mary Gilligan, Michael and Lories Sherlock, Mary and Brian Smyth, Joyce Rutherford, Tiffen Developments Ltd.
Location: 133 135 Morehampton Road, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish majority of structures for three residential units, a café/bar/restaurant and site works. Applicant: James Madigan and Sons. Appellant(s): Marie Therese Joy, McCardle and Co Solicitors, Philip OReilly.
Location: 5-6 Church Road, Ballybrack, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish houses for a development comprising retail and 10 apartments. Applicant: Highlands Estates Ltd. Appellant(s): Ballybrack Tidy Towns, Alan Dillon, Carl Murray and Tadgh Stapleton, Gerard Ellis and family.
Location: 1-2 Chamber Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish pub for a six-storey building comprising nine apartments, pub and bookmakers. Applicant: James Leslie Curtin. Appellant(s): An Taisce, James Leslie Curtis.
Location: Doonbeg, Co Clare. Proposed development: demolish two cottages for 77 houses, crèche/community building, access, roundabout and site works. Applicant: Brian McGeoy and Niall Cunningham. Appellant(s): Doonbeg Community Development Ltd, Brian McGeoy and Niall Cunningham.
Location: Tullyvarraga, Shannon, Co Clare. Proposed development: chapel and crematorium with ancillary works. Applicant: Illaunamanagh Ltd. Appellant(s): Residents of Gleann an Oir.
Location: Ballycahill, Nenagh, Co Tipperary. Proposed development: air pollution licence to manufacture bitumen, macadam and asphalt. Applicant: RAC Eire. Appellant(s): Frank Hoey, Rory Chadwick, James Harnett, Michael White, Brian Walsh, Graham Kennedy, Louis Robinson.
Location: Bishopslands, Ballymore Eustace, Co Kildare. Proposed development: sludge treatment plant. Applicant: Dublin City Council. Appellant(s): Ballymore Eustace Trout and Salmon Anglers Association.
Location: Coolnamuck, Demesne, Co Tipperary. Proposed development: roundabout and ancillary works. Applicant: Joh Ronan. Appellant(s): Carrick on Suir Angling Club, An Taisce, National Roads Authority.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Old Wesley Rugby Club, Kilgobbin Lane, Stepaside, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish clubhouse and removal of pitches for 281 residential units with site works. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction (with conditions).
Location: 144 Richmond Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 7. Proposed development: 68 apartments, three commercial units, one welfare facility and site works. Applicant: National Association of Building Co-operatives Society (with revised conditions).
Location: Ballybeg/Cork Road, Waterford city. Proposed development: retail warehousing, hotel, cinema, conference and enterprise centre, polyclinic, office/leisure, 753 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Parker Green International (Waterford) Ltd (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 1 Bayswater Terrace, Breffni Rd, Sandycove, Co Dublin. Proposed development: extension to rear, change of use from four apartments to two dwellings, demolish conservatory to rear and replace with sunroom (protected structure). Applicant: Michael Sawtel.
Location: Craddockstown North, Naas East, Naas, Co Kildare. Proposed development: 303 dwelling units with a crèche, car-parking, access road and ancillary works. Applicant: Twangebrook Ltd.
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown
APPLICATIONS
Location: Laurel Cottage, Lanesville, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish cottage for five apartments in two blocks with site works. Applicant: Brendan Flynn.
Location: Seapoint Dart station, Seapoint Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 14.12-metre long by 1.72-metre wide steel railway footbridge, including steel staircases, over the Dublin to Wexford Line, to replace footbridge. Stone-clad lift shafts attached to the new footbridge on both platforms to facilitate full mobility impaired access to the station. Remove existing footbridge. Temporary removal of masonry wall adjacent to the station entrance and the installation of a temporary stairway access around the rear of the station building connecting to the northbound platform. Installation of a temporary footbridge at the north end of the platforms. Internal alterations and building works to the station building to accommodate the new footbridge, staircase and lift shafts, and the temporary access stairs to the rear of the building. Modifications to the station roof to accommodate the proposed lift shaft and stairs. Regrading the station entrance pathway in the immediate vicinity of the station entrance to match with the station concourse level and the station entrance will be modified to allow for full mobility impaired access. Seapoint station adjoins the protected structures: walls to former stables, forming the boundary wall to rear of northbound platform and rear of station building; nos 1 to 8 Ardenza Terrace; 36 and 38 Seapoint Avenue; and no works are proposed for any part of these structures. Applicant: Iarnród Éireann.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 106 108 Lower Churchtown Road, Churchtown, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolition of two houses and associated buildings for an apartment scheme containing 26 dwellings distributed between three buildings. Blocks A and B: two three-storey blocks with three levels of accommodation and will have eight apartments per building. Block C: three-storey building with 10 apartments. Provision of 29 car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Ralph Lindsay.
Dublin City Council
APPLICATIONS
Location: 27-34 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2. Proposed development: two additional floors over nos 33 and 34 St Stephens Green and two additional floors over the bedroom block (known as the 1990s bedroom block), to the rear of these two houses (protected structures). Internal alterations to provide eight additional service suites as additional accommodation within the Shelbourne Hotel (protected structure). Applicant: Kantaka Enterprises Ltd.
South Dublin
APPLICATIONS
Location: 1.63-hectare site, Ashleaf Shopping Centre, Crumlin Cross, Crumlin, Dublin 12. Proposed development: retail, residential, office and apart-hotel uses on a 1.63-hectare site which will consist of the partial demolition, refurbishment and extension of Ashleaf Shopping Centre. The development will consist of the demolition of 3,559sq m (38,309sq ft) of space; the refurbishment of 2,960sq m (31,861sq ft); the continued use of 12,394sq m (133,408sq ft); and the reorganisation of floor space and new construction, resulting in a scheme of 28,084sq m (302,293sq ft), excluding car-parking at basement level. Reorganisation of some floor space, which results in a change of use from non-retail services to retail; retail to medical centre; office to retail; non-retail services to office; office to apart-hotel; ancillary space to medical centre; and ancillary space to retail. Provision of an 80-bedroom apart-hotel including conference facilities, 40 residential units comprising four one-beds, 33 two-beds and three three-beds. The scheme will be arranged over five levels (from ground floor to fourth floor). Applicant: Gary Smith.
Location: Lucan Spa Hotel, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: alterations and extensions to the hotel (protected structure) comprising at ground floor internal alterations to the ballroom (including removal of modern balcony), toilets/cloakroom and adjoining Liffey room forming ballroom/function room and staff welfare areas together with the demolition of the modern single storey extensions to the south of the ballroom and their replacement with a single storey extension comprising ballroom pavilion annexe, kitchen and store areas. Remove modern ballroom balcony and toilets to form boardroom/bedroom at first floor. Alterations to the elevations comprising reinstatement of windows to ballroom, Liffey room and one window in the south façade at first floor level. New external ground level balcony structure to the south and west as part of the ballroom pavilion annexe and reinstatement, extension and part enclosure of original glass canopy to the hotel (entrance) west elevation. Applicant: Lucan Spa Hotel Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: St Mels Avenue, Greenhills, Dublin 12. Proposed development: six three-bedroom terraced houses with access from St Mels Avenue with site works. Applicant: Lansdowne Francs Properties Ltd.
Fingal
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Clonard Hill, Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: residential scheme of 107 units (14 one-beds, 69 two-beds, and 24 three-beds, offices and retail scheme including a crèche in five three to four-storey blocks. Provision of 466 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Aldi Stores (Ireland) Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Forrest Field, Rathingle, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish detached and semi-detached cottages for two blocks of apartments comprising two one-bed, seven two-bed and 11 three-bed units with 37 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Gary Conville.
Compiled by Mary Hetherington
