A selective guide to developments in your area.
AN BORD PLEANÁLA - APPEALS
Location: Castleknock Cross, Old Navan Road, Castleknock, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish premises for five apartment blocks containing 60 units and 18 townhouses with associated site works. Applicant: John and Collette Schrivenier. Appellant(s): Auburn/Woodview Residents Association.
Location: Royal Canal Bank, rear of 16-23 St Ignatius Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 7. Proposed development: demolish factory for a two-storey building of seven studio/gallery units, tea room, five apartments and all associated site works. Applicant: Graceavon Holdings. Appellant(s): Denise Trout.
Location: Eddies Coalyard, 1-3 St Michael's Cottages, Hole in the Wall Road, Grange Road, Donaghmede, Dublin 13. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 71 apartments in three blocks with associated site works and services. Applicant: Edward Cummins and Brian Foran. Appellant(s): Michael Farrell and Nancy Farrell, Frank Hand.
Location: By-Ways (rear of 6 The Birches), Westminster Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development: dormer-style detached dwelling with driveway and associated development works. Applicant: A Cassidy. Appellant(s): Residents of By-Way.
Location: Glenesk, 44 Claremont Road, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish single storey extension and second storey to return with new single storey extension and second storey part single extension to side. Applicant: Brian Cullen. Appellant(s): David and Bernard Hickie.
Location: Albany Lodge, Shanganagh Road, Shankill, Co Dublin. Proposed development:16 apartments on four floors with basement car-parking and all associated works. Applicant: A Mulvaney. Appellant(s): Muriel Johnson, Cor Ruigrok and Linda Farren and others.
Location: Rosemount Cottage, Dundrum Road, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish house for an apartment development with associated works. Applicant: Fergal and Geraldine McDonnell. Appellant(s): Sunnybank Court Residents Association, Mary Grogan.
Location: Waterside, Queenstown Castle (protected structure), Coliemore Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: alterations to previously permitted (Reg Ref D02A/0011) including relocation of boathouse, rearrangement of slipway and ramp, relocation of staircase and associated development works. Applicant: Brian Coleman. Appellant(s): Jack Lewis.
Location: Turf Club Offices, Curragh Racecourse, The Curragh, Co Kildare. Proposed development: two-storey office building inclusive of attic-roof space level plant room, car-parking and site works. Applicant: The Trustees of the Turf Club. Appellant(s): Percy Podger and Friends of the Curragh Environment Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Fey Yerra, Leopardstown Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development:20 residential units with 30 surface car-parking spaces. Applicant: Strandsend Ltd (with revised conditions).
Location: Stillorgan shopping centre, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: partial demolition, refurbishment and extension of shopping centre. Applicant: Myrmidon Ltd (with conditions).
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN - APPLICATIONS
Location: Brookville, Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish house and outbuilding for four two-bed ground floor apartments, eight three-bed three-storey townhouses and four four-bed townhouses with 25 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Tuskar Property Holdings Ltd.
Location: Clonkeen Road, close to its junction with the Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house and associated structures for a four-storey apartment development of 18 units (three one-beds, 12 two-beds and three three-beds) in two blocks with a neighbourhood shop at ground floor level, and 83 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Hegel Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 54 Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 and lands formerly part of Loretto National School (disused hockey pitch). Proposed development: demolish end-terrace house for 80 units (36 houses and 44 two-bed apartments) in six blocks with site works. Applicant: M & N O'Grady.
Location: Dalkey Lodge Nursing Home, Ardbrugh Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish nursing home for seven three-bed and eight four-bed three-storey terraced houses, revised site access, car-parking and site works. Applicant: Riddermark Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 13 & 14 Adelaide Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin (adjacent to Adelaide Stores/post office). Proposed development: demolish buildings for mixed-use three-storey and part four-storey building to consist of a retail/office unit, two one-bed apartments, three one-bed apartments and five two-bed apartments with basement car-parking. Applicant: Dermot Sheerin and Bernadette Rooney.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL - APPLICATIONS
Location: Tara Towers Hotel and 205-221 Merrion Road and Bellevue Avenue, Dublin 4. Proposed development: demolish structures (inclusive of the Tara Towers Hotel, Llandaff Terrace, Llandaff House and St Columcille's House) for a 25-storey building accommodating a 156-room hotel, meeting and conference rooms, restaurant at second floor level, reception and lobby area and office/administration plus 82 residential units (48 three-beds, 15 two-bed plus study units, 15 two-beds and four one-beds) with 199 car-parking spaces at basement level and 171 bicycle spaces at ground floor level. Applicant: Radora Developments Ltd.
Location: site known as Boland's Mills, Ringsend Road, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4. Proposed development: mixed-use scheme of offices and a hotel. Four buildings on site are protected structures and these will be refurbished and incorporated into the overall development. Demolish silos, storage sheds and a former office for a scheme of 41,223sq m (443,720sq ft) comprising three main office blocks and a central services/lift core ranging from 13 to 20 storeys; a hotel incorporating the refurbishment and conservation of a protected structure along Ringsend Road ranging from four storeys to six storeys; a five-storey office building overlooking Grand Canal Dock with 183 car-parking spaces and 387 bicycle parking spaces at basement level. Applicant: Versus Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Busáras (protected structure), Store Street, Dublin 1. Proposed development: cleaning and repair of bronze glazing and brickwork at ground level and stone cladding in the bus yard, new entrance on both sides of west-facing entrance lobby consisting of bronze automatic sliding doors, new cladding and uplights to the underside of the canopy, new signage above doors, new ground lights, bins, lampposts and mattwell internally and new internal information panel. ATM enclosure is to be removed and a new ATM and doorway will replace the north-facing bar entrance. New bus parking bays in the bus yard, footpaths, kerbs, bollards, bus signs and line marking. The bus yard entrance and exit to have new steel gates, new automatic barriers, stone-paved pedestrian crossings, safety warning signs and an audible hazard warning. Applicant: Bus Éireann.
FINGAL - APPLICATIONS
Location: townland of Ballymun at St Annes, Cloghran, Swords, Co Dublin. Proposed development: temporary permission for five years for scheme with surface car-parking for 4,157 cars, a single storey security hut/office, seven bus shelters, six entrance barriers, pay station, relocation and redesign of junction with the Naul Road (R108), associated fencing, and site works. Applicant: Metropark Ltd.
Location: Mulhalls & Dun Mhuire, Coolock Lane, Santry, Dublin 9. Proposed development: demolish adjoining semis and outbuildings for 32 apartments (seven one-beds, 20 two-beds and five three-beds) in a part three and four-storey building over basement with set-back fifth storey penthouse level, 49 car-parking spaces (11 surface and 38 basement), landscaping and site development works. Applicant: Damien Keogh Construction Ltd.
SOUTH DUBLIN - APPLICATIONS
Location: Stoney Road, Rathcoole, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 288 residential units in a mix of houses, duplexes and apartments, 295sq m (3,175sq ft) crèche, 398 surface car-parking spaces and associated development works. Applicant: G, J & R Stanley.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: site bounded by Ballycullen Road, Dalriada, east/west Distributor Road and new access road, Ballycullen, Dublin 16. Proposed development: realignment of the Ballycullen Road, provision of one vehicular access from the realigned Ballycullen Road, one vehicular access from the new access road to the east of the site, four pedestrian accesses, crèche/medical facility, 147 dwellings in two five/six-storey blocks, 11 three/four-storey blocks and the balance in two/three-storey housing with underground car-parking and site works. Applicant: Ellier Developments Ltd.
Location: lands bounded generally by Adamstown Avenue to the north and east, permitted primary schools (SDZ06A/2) and future secondary school to the south and future development lands to the west, in the townlands of Finnstown and Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 173 dwellings (57 two-beds and 116 three-beds) in a mix of houses, apartments and duplexes ranging from two to four storeys with 222 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction.
