A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
Appeals
Location: Springfield Hse & 4 Springfield Pk, Foxrock, D18. Proposed development: demolish houses for 23 residential units and site works. Applicant: Peter and Caroline Dunne. Appellant(s): Anne Whyte, Springfield Residents Association, Oliver Cosgrave, Peter and Caroline Dunne.
Location: Ashton, The Hill, Monkstown, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish conservatory for extension to rear and side with internal changes to dwelling (protected structure). Applicant: Frank and Ann O'Brien. Appellant(s): JA Gallagher, Frank and Ann O'Brien.
Location: Springville House, Blackrock Road, Cork. Proposed development: demolish Springville House for 29 apartments and seven houses with car-parking and ancillary works. Applicant: William and Margaret O'Sullivan. Appellant(s): David Flynne, Sean and Vourneen O'Hanlon, William and Margaret O'Sullivan.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Shieling Hotel (protected structure), Howth Rd, Raheny, D5. Proposed development: demolish house extensions and convert house to five apartments; 63 apartments in three blocks. Site works. Applicant: A J Hanlon and F Martinez (with revised conditions).
Location: junction of Strand Road and Carrickhill Road, Portmarnock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: two retail units, coffee shop, 32 residential units and 73 car-parking spaces at basement level. Applicant: Bill and Antoinette Porter (with revised conditions).
Location: Nova Facility (Merville House) sports ground soccer pitch, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4. Proposed development: bio-pharmaceutical research/training facility of 13,257sq m (142,697sq ft) and site works including access via entrance. Applicant: Daniel Brennan (with revised conditions).
Location: Ballarney North, Rathnew, Co Wicklow. Proposed development: 230 dwellings with site works. Applicant: Knockrobin Residents (with revised conditions).
Location: 17-25 Wheatley Way, Broomfield Village, Broomfield East, Midleton, Co Cork. Proposed development: 88 houses, alterations to floor levels of permitted dwellings 17-25 Wheatley Way, site works and services. Applicant: McInerney Homes Ltd.
Location: former Keating Bakery, Tramore Road, Cork. Proposed development: demolish all structures for 84 apartments and 12 duplex units with basement car-parking. Applicant: Raymond Roche (with conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Angelsea House, 63 Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish offices for a two to three-storey building of 11 residential units and site works, including basement car-park and lift. Applicant: The Anglesea Partnership.
Location: Grove House, Hainault Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development: single storey gate-lodge with car-parking space, driveway and site works. Applicant: Jacqueline Leahy.
Location: 16/17 Rutland Place, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 16 apartments with site works. Applicant: Edward Kenny and Fergal Herbert.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
Applications
Location: Shanganagh Road, Loughlinstown River and Commons Road, access from the Shanganagh Road. Proposed development: 36 apartments (five one-beds, 23 two-beds and eight three-beds) in a building of three and four storeys above a semi-basement car-park providing 37 spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Sorohan Builders Ltd.
FINGAL
Applications
Location: Flemington Lane, Flemington Townlands, Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish dwelling for 181 units (45 houses and 136 apartments) with site works and landscaping. Applicant: Balscaddan Developments Ltd.
Location: rear of the Cottages, Kinsealy, Lane, Malahide, Co Dublin. Proposed development: partial demolition of the side wall to the rear of house, erect 32 residential units and a shop and office. Applicant: Tony Browne.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: lands to the west of Kinsealy Lane, Malahide, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 22 dwellings with car-parking, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Birchwell Ltd.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Applications
Location: former Viking Adventure Centre and Museum, 15-19 Essex Street West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. Proposed development: Girls School area (protected structure) - change of use from exhibition hall/museum to a school of acting and associated office spaces. Remove internal stairs and toilets, new three-storey stairs and stair enclosure to rear courtyard (Blind Quay Courtyard side), and modifications and extension to lift shaft and insertion of new dormer-style office at second floor/roof level. Internal modifications include inserting new partitions and doors. Black Box area - new stairs and lift enclosure serving the new theatre in the St Michael and St Johns Church and associated modifications to theatre space in the Black Box and first floor kitchens and servery and conversion of theatre bar/café. New circulation, connecting doorways to St Michael and St John Church. St Michael and St Johns Church (protected structure) - change of use from exhibition hall/museum and banquet hall to 200-seat theatre. Remove concrete and steel 1990s first floor, reinstate original floor level, open up original entrance doors and windows to Essex Street West, insert first floor gallery, opening and formation of new connecting doorways, lowering the lower ground floor floor-level, new lower ground floor support space to include toilets, ticket box and changing rooms. Boys School (protected structure) - change of use from exhibition hall/museum to use as a school of acting. Remove ramp and reinstate floors in building, new glass and steel second floor studio. Applicant: Smock Alley Ltd.
Location: site of 1.31 hectares at Orwell Park, Rathgar, Dublin 6 (site forms part of St Joseph's retirement and residential centre at 47-53 Orwell Park and Dartry House, protected structure, Orwell Park, Dublin 6). Proposed development: demolish buildings to north of Dartry House and fronting onto Orwell Woods and Orwell Park for 59 apartments (12 one-beds, 25 two-beds and 22 three-beds) in four four-storey blocks. Convert stables/outbuildings of Dartry House (protected structure) for four one-bed apartments and four two-bed apartments. Provision of 125 car-parking spaces at basement level and four surface car-parking spaces. Site works and landscaping. Applicant: Eugene Renehan.
Location: Grove Lane, Clare Hall, Malahide Road, Dublin 17. Proposed development: 44 residential units in three apartment blocks. Block G: two-storey block with eight one-beds, four two-beds and two two-bed duplexes. Block H: two storeys with four one-beds, four two-beds and one two-bed duplex. Block J: two and three storeys with nine one-beds, 10 two-beds and two two-bed duplexes. Provision of 65 basement car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Albany Homes Ltd.
Location: Blackhorse House Industrial Estate, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7. Proposed development: demolish buildings for apartment development of 70 units (13 one-beds, 46 two-beds, one two-bed duplex and 10 three-beds). Provision of 68 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Vincent Maguire and Liam Moran.
Location: north-east site, Bond Drive Extension, Dublin 3. Proposed development: double level one/two-storey portal frame building for four helicopter workshop/hangers with office space to first floor and side of building, and 15-metre by 15-metre helipad to north/rear of site. Single storey portal frame truck garage to east/side of site. Truck wash bays to south-east corner of site and fuel pumps to centre of site and linked helicopter fuel dispenser to north-east of site. Provision of 24 car-parking spaces and 14 truck spaces. Applicant: Molloy & Sherry Transport Ltd.
Location: site adjacent to main entrance of Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin 11. Proposed development: three-storey heritage centre of two storeys over lower ground floor/basement and including exhibition/display area, lecture theatre, cafeteria, public toilets and areas for staff and grounds maintenance. Restor, refurbish and minor alterations to former Superintendents Lodge on Finglas Road. Demolish modern extension and other mid 20th century structures, including staff toilets, locker room for ground staff, memorials workshop and concrete block screen walls. Provision of 45 car-parking spaces, wider entrance gates from Finglas Road (this involves demolition of part of the stone boundary wall), replace part of the stone boundary wall on Finglas Road, refurbish gates and railings, new paving adjacent to heritage centre, former Superintendent's Lodge and the Mortuary Chapel. New landscaping. Applicant: Dublin Cemeteries Committee.
SOUTH DUBLIN
Applications
Location: 44 Main Street, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish terraced house for retail unit at basement and ground floor levels and office at first and second floor. Applicant: Paul Joyce and Brendan Balfe.
Location: Main Street, Clondalkin Village, Dublin 22. Proposed development: demolish building and two unoccupied single storey shops and a two-storey building comprising dwelling, shop and auctioneer's office and related rear extension and outbuildings for a three-storey building with five ground floor shops, five first floor offices and four attic/second floor abutting adjoining buildings. Applicant: Gay Boylan.
