A selective guide to developments in your area. Compiled by Mary Hetherington.
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
Location: Dromoland Castle, Dromoland, Quin Road, Co Clare. Proposed development: golf course operations facility and site works within the curtilage of a protected structure. Applicant: Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd. Appellant(s): Ken Power.
Location: 375 Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7. Proposed development: three-storey apartment block comprising 18 units with site works. Applicant: Michael O'Doherty. Appellant(s): Martina Kennedy and others.
Location: Annagh Upper, Dowra, Co Leitrim. Proposed development: extend navigable channel from Lough Allen to Annagh Upper for 16-berth public marina with floating walkways, finger jetties, car-park, access and site works. Applicant: Waterways Ireland. Appellant(s): Kevin Deering, Action for Thoughtful Use of Natural Resources, Cavan Leitrim Environmental Awareness Network Ltd, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, An Taisce, Water World Europe.
Location: Gortnahomna More, Castlemartyr, Co Cork. Proposed development: 200 dwellings and widening of N25 to provide right-turning lanes. Applicant: Chieftain Construction Ltd. Appellant(s): NRA.
Location: High Park House, Craanlusky, Bilboa, Co Carlow. Proposed development: extraction of stone and associated processing works, new wheel wash and weighbridge, topsoil storage areas and screening berms on site. Applicant: JJ O'Brien and JP O'Brien. Appellant(s): Geoffrey Cope, William Pender, JJ O'Brien and JP O'Brien, David Flynn and Hilda Flynn, Pat and Catherine Ayres.
Location: Battsland and Main Street, Dunleer, Co Louth. Proposed development: 167 residential units, 12 retail units and site works. Applicant: the Dunleer Co-Ownership. Appellant(s): Dunleer Community Development Board, An Taisce.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Sandymount Castle Park, Gilford Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish house for 48 residential units, car-parking, site access improvement works, boundary treatments and site works. Applicant: Bryan Cullen (with conditions).
Location: the Barn, Riversdale Ave, off Bushy Park Road, Dublin 6. Proposed development: demolish the Barn for four houses around a central hard landscaped courtyard, and site works. Applicant: John Morrissey (with revised conditions).
Location: Bawnafinney, Tower, Blarney, Co Cork. Proposed development: demolish two houses for 168 residential units, a crèche and site works. Applicant: Coleman Brothers Developments Ltd (with conditions)
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 92-93 St Stephen's Green South, Dublin 2 (protected structure). Proposed development: demolish single storey building for a stand-alone five-storey office block with set-back penthouse to rear. Applicant: Leo Mohan.
Location: Mardyke Gardens, Mardyke Walk, Cork. Proposed development: university outreach and access building with associated development boundary treatment and site works. Applicant: University College Cork.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Location: Baldonnell Business Park, Baldonnell, Dublin 22. Proposed development: two-storey own-door office building of 18 own-door offices; light industrial warehouse comprising of six units with ancillary two-storey offices, car-parking and site works. Applicant: SIAC Construction Ltd.
Location: site of c. 0.2 hectares on lands at Airlie House (protected structure), Tandy's Lane, Finnstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish two-storey extensions on the south-east corner and western elevation of Airlie House. Renovate and extend Airlie House to provide a crèche with 100 child spaces. Change of use of the remaining structure from dwelling to crèche use which will have 494.4sq m (5,322sq ft) and contain eight classrooms, one sleep room, a staffroom, an indoor activity street, kitchen, manager's office, laundry room/store plus ancillary rooms. Site and landscaping works including an outdoor play area, 10 car-parking spaces within the grounds of the crèche and a further three set down spaces on the external access road. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: The Bungalow, Hayden's Lane, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house and garage for four two-storey detached four-bed houses with site works and landscaping. Applicant: Hugh McGivern.
Location: the Hermitage Medical Clinic, Old Lucan Road, Fonthill, Co Dublin. Proposed development: one-storey extension to three-storey accommodation wing of hospital and 77 additional car-parking spaces. Applicant: Hermitage Medical Developments Ltd.
Location: site of 0.032 hectares at Dublin Airport, Corballis, Co Dublin. Proposed development: alternative exit onto Corballis Road South, to serve car-park and extension of car-park at Cloghran House. Applicant: Dublin Airport Authority.
Location: O'Neills Cottage, New Road, Donabate, Co Dublin. Proposed development: eco estate of 16 zero carbon-generating houses. Demolish and recycle single-storey dwellings. Eight five-bed detached houses; four five-bed semis and four four-bed semis. New vehicular access road and entrance onto New Road. Public open space, solar panels, water recycling units, heat recovery units and wood pellet/chip boilers for each house, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Cadogan Enright & Eamon O'Neill.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: former Solas factory premises and lands, Corke Abbey, Bray, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 78 apartments in two three-storey blocks over basement car-parking for 103 cars, site and landscaping works. Applicant: Sequel Properties Ltd.
Location: Shell petrol station site at corner of Taney Grove and Taney Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish structures for three retail units, 22 apartments, 48 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Tansan Properties Ltd.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: Emerald Square, Dolphin's Barn, Dublin 8. Proposed development: seven three-storey dwellings (two one-beds, one two-bed and four three-beds) with car-parking and site works. Applicant: Michael Flood.
Location: The Chancery, 3-10 Chancery Lane, Dublin 8 (including part of the rear of 98 Bride Street, Dublin 8) and 100-101 Bride Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: modify basement layout of the Chancery Building; amalgamate 92sq m (990sq ft) of external walkway and 97sq m (1,044sq ft) of external roof terrace at fifth floor level. Change of use of four residential units to office space. Add sixth floor of office accommodation with external walkway and landscaped roof terrace. These changes make the building seven storeys high. Erect nine-storey office building on the former Napper Tandy pub site. Applicant: G Quinn.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 11A (Garda Station) and 12-16 Harcourt Terrace, and site formerly known as the Dairy Science Laboratory onto to Charlemont Place (also known as Harcourt Terrace Lane), Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish all structures on site for a residential and office development in four blocks. Block A: seven storeys with 20 two-bed apartments, one three-bed apartment and one four-bed apartment. Block B: five storeys with nine one-beds and 12 two-beds. Nine-storey office blocks fronting onto Charlemont Place and a four-storey office block to the rear of the site. Provision of 86 car-parking spaces at basement level; landscaping and site works. Applicant: Harcourt Terrace Ltd.
Location: corner of Hendrick Street, Hendrick Lane and Benburb Street, Dublin 7 (site incorporates 17 Benburb Street and the adjoining former Edmundson Electrical factory building and is adjacent to 6 Benburb Street). Proposed development: demolish 17 Benburb Street (H Matthews pub) and factory building for 87 residential units (23 one-beds, 44 two-beds and 20 three-beds) in three blocks from four to 10 storeys. New public space at junction of Benburb Street and Hendrick Lane. Two basement levels accommodating 89 car-parking spaces and 103 cycle parking spaces, bin storage, swimming pool, changing rooms and site works. Applicant: Apex Estates Ltd.
Location: 366-368 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish former licensed premises and all associated structures for 66 apartments in three blocks, 104 car-parking spaces and 66 cycle spaces in level basement with three levels. Applicant: MKN Developments Ltd.
