A selective guide to developments in your area
An Bord Pleanála
APPEALS
Location: Ferndene, Deansgrange Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Proposed development: alterations to house to provide two apartments, new scheme of 24 apartments and site works. Applicant: John OConnor. Appellant(s): Patrick J Cody and Murray McCarter, Geoffrey Ryan, Catherine OFlynn and others.
Location: De Selby Quarry, townland of Corbally and Lugmore, Tallaght, Co Dublin. Proposed development: continue quarrying. Applicant: Roadstone Dublin Ltd. Appellant(s): Bryan and Elaine Joyce, Colm Kenny, Roadstone Ltd.
Location: 1, 2 and 3 Cumberland Street, 14 Clarence Street, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish 14 Clarence Street and part of 3 Cumberland Street for commercial, retail and office areas with site works. Applicant: Clarence Cumberland Ltd. Appellant(s): Frank Quinn, MESA Tablewear Ltd.
Location: rear of Portobello House, Richmond Street South, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish on-site structures for a four-storey building for educational and ancillary use with site works. Applicant: The Richmond Partnership. Appellant(s): Philip O'Reilly and Graham Stone.
Location: 18 Fairview Avenue Lower and Fairview Terrace, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 12 apartments and six group living units in two blocks with site works. Applicant: Abbey Building Contractors and Novas Arlington Ireland. Appellant(s): Anthony Farrell, Margaret Austin, Cormac Caulfield, Jacinta Fayne, Owen Hawkins, Drumderg Court (SD) Ltd, Peter Maybury and Maire-Pierre Richard, Stephen Kennedy, Declan, Elizabeth and Isabella Fallon and others, Marguerite McCartney and others, Robert Lambe and Yvonne Farrell, Edward Lambe, Ciara OConnor and others, Lorraine Lawlor, Michael Geraghty, Fairview Residents Association, Paul Geraghty and Valerie Behan, Mairead Greally and others, Marino and District Community Centre Ltd, Catherine Dolan and others, Geraldine Kelly and others, Jim Carroll and Lisa Tinley, John Murphy, Iarla Flynn, Linda, Bernard and Constance Homan, Vivienne O'Reilly.
Location: Mallow Railway Station, Mallow, Co Cork. Proposed development: demolish buildings, walls and boundary treatment for new roadworks, accesses and works and closure of railway level crossing XC227 (Railway Safety Programme). Applicant: Iarnród Éireann. Appellant(s): Dominic Barry, Noreen McCormack, Dermot and Anne Kelleher, Sean and Margaret OShea, Andrew and Caroline Leneghan, Gerard Enright, Liam and Mary Sheahan, Patrick Cotter, Ita and Marie McNulty, Dolores and David Meade.
Location: Ballyuandon, Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork. Proposed development: 55 units. Applicant: Michael and Ina Burke. Appellant(s): An Taisce.
Location: Ballyvaughan, Co Clare. Proposed development: 44 dwelling units in two phases. Applicant: Kevin Tuohy. Appellant(s): Pauline Burke.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 72, 73 74 Francis Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: renovation/partial demolition of structures, erect seven apartments, live/work unit, workshop, retail and site works. Applicant: Richard Smyth (with revised conditions).
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 11a and 12-16 Harcourt Terrace and Harcourt Terrace Lane, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish buildings for 43 apartments, offices and site works. Applicant: Harcourt Terrace Ltd.
Location: Ballybay Road, Cloughvalley Lower, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. Proposed development: 300 residential units, crèche and 503 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Sillan Homes Ltd.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
APPLICATIONS
Location: 106 108 Lower Churchtown Road, Churchtown, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish two houses and associated buildings for apartment scheme of 26 units in three buildings, 29 car-parking spaces and site works. Applicant: Ralph Lindsay.
South Dublin
APPLICATIONS
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: lands to the rear of De Selby Lawns, Blessington Road, Dublin 24. Proposed development: two two-bed townhouses, six three-bed houses and site works. Applicant: Annro Developments Ltd.
Location: site of former Esso station at junction of Greenhills Road/Main Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Proposed development: 28 apartments (11 three-beds, nine two-beds and eight one-beds) and 654sq m (7,040sq ft) of retail on four floors over basement car-park. Applicant: John OConnor.
Dublin City Council
APPLICATIONS
Location: Gresham Hotel, Upper OConnell Street, Dublin 1 on the site at rear of 19, 20/22, 23 and 24 Upper OConnell Street and 1-7 Cathal Brugha Street (all protected structures), the T Wing (1950s and 1960s extensions) and the Lavery Wing (1990 extension) and bounded by OConnell Street, Cathal Brugha Street, Thomas Lane and Marlborough Street, Dublin 1. Proposed development: demolish structures at either side of T Wing behind 19 to 23 Upper OConnell Street. Remove plant rooms at roof level to 20/22 Upper OConnell Street. Renew windows in protected structures as per previous permission (Reg Ref 5974/04). New sub-basement water storage, additional meeting rooms, restaurant area and new back of house facilities at basement level. Relocate restaurant and new shop on Cathal Brugha Street together with new function room, relocate kitchens, extension to foyer bar, new entrance from Thomas Lane and relocate sub-station, all on ground floor level. Meeting room in lieu of admin offices, day spa and fitness area, together with a courtyard garden at first floor level. Total of 179 new bedrooms in new block either side of the T Wing on the second to seventh floors; in converted office/meeting rooms on second to fourth floors; in new infill to the fourth and fifth floors to Cathal Brugha Street and 23/24 Upper OConnell Street; in replacement of sixth floor level; in additional seventh floor level to the T Wing in three suites in a new penthouse along with new external terrace at 20/22 Upper OConnell Street on the sixth floor; and in the Lavery Wing in two new sixth and seventh floors. Executive lounge and roof garden at seventh floor. New function/conference facility in a double height glazed structure with smoking/viewing deck and bar. Six additional passenger lifts and five additional service lifts. Applicant: Precinct Investments Ltd.
Location: Andrew's Lane Theatre, St Andrews Lane, Dublin 2. Proposed development: demolish two-storey theatre for a seven-storey with basement level theatre accessed from St Andrews Lane (West) and car store accessed from St Andrews Lane (North), retail unit, restaurant and wine bar use at ground floor and mezzanine level, office use at first to fifth floors and set-back penthouse office suite at sixth floor. Applicant: The Andrews Lane Consortium.
Location: Millennium Tower, Millennium Walkway and corner of Byrne's Lane, Dublin 1. Proposed development: change of use and internal modifications of 11-storey apartment building from residential use (nine apartments) to 26-bed hotel with reception and staff facilities. Applicant: Danninger.
Location: former Shell station, junction of Parnell Road, Parnell Avenue and Parnell Court, Crumlin, Dublin 12. Proposed development: demolish buildings and remove underground storage tanks for 19 apartments and a medical consultants office. The apartments consist of 16 two-beds and three three-bed duplexes in two four-storey blocks with 19 basement car-parking spaces and landscaping. Applicant: Mark Carroll and Vincent Byrne.
Location: Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. Proposed development: National Centre for Science and Discovery with exhibition spaces, demonstration theatres, café and shop, offices, roof garden and landscaping. The main building is a four/five-storey structure with eight-storey atrium entrance and a single storey basement. Alteration to permission granted for a cultural/museum building. The development is within the curtilage of a protected structure (Phoenix Park deer wall). Applicant: Kevin Connolly, SPU, The Commissioners of Public Works.
Location: Building DE within the Spencer Dock development site, Dublin 1, site of 0.6 hectares (1.48 acres) bounded by the proposed Station Square, and planned Mayor Street extension to the north, North Wall Quay to the south and Building C (PricewaterhouseCoopers) to the west. The site includes the protected structures of the Wood Store and the LMS Building (CIÉ Goods Depot). Proposed development: eight-storey office building, alter and refurbish Wood Store and the LMS Building (CIÉ Goods Depot) - both protected structures - at North Wall Quay to contain café, restaurant/function room, gym, public information/exhibition, meeting room and boardroom uses. The two structures will be connected to the eight-storey building. Provision of 98 car-parking spaces and 254 cycle spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Spencer Dock Development Company Ltd.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: 34/35 and 36/37 Ormond Quay Lower, 28a and 32/33 Strand Street Great at ground floor level, and upper floors of 29/31 Strand Street Great, D1. Proposed development: demolish structures at 28a Strand Street Great and area to rear of 34/35 and 36/37 Ormond Quay Lower for construction of a hotel including reception area, bar/lounge areas, dining/restaurant areas, 90 bedrooms/suites, staff facilities and ancillary space. The scheme is from two to five storeys. Applicant: Deepdrill Developments Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: 32/33 Clanbrassil Street Lower, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish structure for a six-storey development of four apartments, retail unit, office unit and site works. Applicant: John C. Carroll.
Fingal
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Regles, The Green, Lusk, Co Dublin. Proposed development: seven dwellings (six two-beds and one one-bed) in two blocks with site works, car-parking and landscaping. Applicant: Sean Naughton.
Location: Discount Fuel Service Station, Clonsilla Road, Clonsilla, D15. Proposed development: demolish service station for a two-storey shop building with off-licence, food bar, storage room and office at ground floor level with seating area. New forecourt with six pump islands, jet wash facility, brush wash facility, instal three 40,000-litre and one 20,000-litre underground fuel tanks. Applicant: Petrogas Group Ltd.
Location: Main Street, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. Proposed development: demolish boundary wall for a retail and office development in a four-storey block. Provision of cycle parking at basement and ground level, landscaping works and site works. Applicant: Niall OFarrell.
