A selective guide to developments in your area
AN BORD PLEANÁLA
Location: Dún Laoghaire Golf Club lands, Glenageary Road Upper, Kill Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: office, retail, 856 residential units and site works. Applicant: Cosgrave Developments. Appellant(s): Lower Glenageary Road Residents Association, Rose Devine and others, Jane and Robin Sykes, Robert Hogan, Ardmore Park and Carriglea Downs Residents Association, Cosgrave Developments, Liam Sellars, Combined Residents to Save Open Space, Peter Readman, Frank Mulrennan, John Ross and Jean Hughes, Sefton and Sefton Green Residents, Noel, B and Patricia Vaughan, Gowrie Park Residents Association,
Location: Old School House, Elbana Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish old school house and rear of 3 Eblana Avenue for retail and office accommodation, 71 residential units and site works. Applicant: Montana Properties Ltd. Appellant(s): Lucia Hayes, Montana Properties Ltd, Irish Georgian Society.
Location: Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: terrace of six houses abutting Royal Terrace House (protected structure) and to rear of Cottage Home (protected structure) with site works. Applicant: Kembara Properties Ltd. Appellant(s): Norman Noonan, Philip Murphy and Robert Pocock.
Location: Armagh Road, Carnbeg, Dundalk, Co Louth. Proposed development: indoor arena, bars/café/restaurants, school of music, extension to hotel, play centre and crèche, 947 residential units with car-parking and site works. Applicant: Carnbeg Developments Ltd. Appellant(s): Gerry Duffy, Colin Murdoch, Nicholas G and Ann Marie Marmion, Anthony and Sandra O'Brien and Maria Rafferty.
Location: City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street Upper, Dublin 4. Proposed development: alterations to reception desk, new entrance door, new ramp and site works. Applicant: Health Service Executive. Appellant(s): Pembroke Road Association.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: site to the west of Main Street, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath and includes Gogan's pub and adjoining structures on Main Street. Proposed development: pub, convenience store, shopping mall with 28 units, mezzanine food court and offices, restaurant, leisure centre, crèche, 116 residential units, 495 car-parking spaces and site works. Demolish existing buildings. Applicant: Cusack Homes Ltd.
Location: Hazeldene, Corrig Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish house for four houses with site works. Applicant: Patrick Rafferty.
DÚN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN
Location: Gortanore, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and outbuildings for 37 apartments (20 three-beds, nine two-beds and eight four-beds), gym/conference room and retail/commercial space, and 90 car-parking spaces. The development is in three blocks of three and four storeys. Applicant: Endlich Ltd.
Location: The Glen, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and outbuildings for 49 apartments (five one-beds, 40 two-beds and four three-beds) with 61 car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: James Rossiter.
Location: 30 Whitehall Road, Churchtown, Dublin 14. Proposed development: demolish dwelling and outbuildings for four detached two-storey dwellings (three five-beds and one four-bed). The site includes the Pigeon House (protected structure/national monument) and adjoins the curtilage of the Bottle Tower (protected structure/national monument) which is outside the application site. Provision of eight car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Cleary Chatten Developments Ltd.
Location: Cairnlea, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin 18. Proposed development: demolish bungalow and outbuilding for 51 apartments in two blocks. Block A: five storeys with 18 apartments. Block B: six storeys with 33 units. Provision of 66 car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Chris Maxwell.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: The Carezza, Dublin Road, Shankill, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 49 apartments in one two-storey building and one terraced building of three and four storeys with landscaping and car-parking. Applicant: Nigel Rogers.
FINGAL
Location: townland of Lanestown, Donabate, Co Dublin. Proposed development: dry good warehousing distribution building with 66,629sq m (717,188sq ft) to consist of admin offices, training centre, meeting rooms, communication rooms, kitchen and restaurant. Alsor 595 car-parking spaces, 252 truck/trailer parking spaces, 61 loading docks, 27,000-litre diesel oil tank and 36,000-litre gas oil tank, vehicle maintenance building, wash apron with equipment, workshop/battery charging area, security building, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Dunnes Stores.
Location: South Strand, Skerries, Co Dublin. Proposed development: one block on 0.089 hectares from two to three storeys with 11 apartments (10 two-bed and one three-bed), 11 car-parking spaces, site works and landscaping. Applicant: Golden South Strand Partnership.
SOUTH DUBLIN
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: Lucan Spa Hotel, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: demolish function room and services area for one and part two-storey above ground and one storey below ground level conference centre/function room extension comprising function and meeting rooms, pre-function areas, bar, kitchen and ancillary areas, glazed link corridor/restoration of canopy to hotel, internal alterations to ground and first floor to provide for hotel lounge, staff accommodation, boardroom, car-parking, landscaping and site works. Applicant: Lucan Spa Hotel Ltd.
Location: townlands of Finnstown and Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin. Proposed development: 374 dwellings (127 houses, 30 two-bed apartments, seven one-bed apartments and 210 duplexes) in mix of buildings up to six storeys. Provision of 589 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Castlethorn Construction.
Location: Profile Park, Nangor Road, Ballybane, Dublin 22. Proposed development: trade park of 35 units in five blocks and single office/showroom building and 336 car-parking spaces. Applicant: Dasnoc Ltd.
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
Location: Carmans Hall Spitalfields and Garden Lane, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish all buildings and structures associated with the abattoir/pig slaughter house/meat processing for 70 apartments (48 two-beds, 14 one-beds and eight three-beds) with 51 car-parking spaces, landscaping and site works. Applicant: H Coyle.
Location: 10 Usher's Island and 32 Island Street, Dublin 8. Proposed development: demolish light industrial shed for 16 apartments (three three-bed duplexes, seven two-bed duplexes, one one-bed duplex and five one-bed apartments). The building will be six storeys high to Ushers Island and 12 storeys onto Island Street. Applicant: Vincent Keary.
DECISION TO GRANT
Location: former Viking Adventure Centre and Museum, 15-19 Essex Street West (including 5-7A Exchange Street Lower, St Michael and St John's Church and former girls school, 16-18 Essex Street West), Dublin 8. Proposed development: changes of use, extensions and alterations to consist of: girls school area (protected structure) change of use from exhibition hall/museum to school of acting and office spaces. Remove internal stairs and toilets; new three-storey stairs and stair enclosure to rear courtyard (Blind Quay courtyard side), modify and extend lift shaft, and insert dormer-style office at second floor/roof level. Black Box area: new stairs and lift enclosure serving new theatre in St Michael and St John's Church, and modify theatre space in the Black Box. Works include new circulation, connecting doorways to St Michael and St John's Church. St Michael and St John's Church (protected structure): change from exhibition hall/museum and banquet hall to 220-seat theatre. Remove concrete and steel 1990s first floor, re-instate original ground floor level, open up original entrance doors and windows to Essex Street West, insert new first floor gallery with opening and formation of new connecting doorways, new lower ground floor support spaces to include toilets, ticket box, changing rooms, plant area and new services and lighting throughout. Boys school (protected structure): change from exhibition hall/museum to school of acting. Remove internal rampway and reinstate floors in building. New glass and steel second floor studio, extend stair lobbies, new lift and lift core and associated works. Applicant: Smock Alley Ltd.
DECISION TO REFUSE
Location: Tom Canavan Motors, Esso Petrol Station, junction of East Wall Road and Alfie Byrne Road, Dublin 3. Proposed development: demolish garage, petrol station and outbuildings for 103 apartments, motor sales and garage facility with customer parking at ground and first floor fronting onto East Wall Road and Alfie Byrne Road, and six-storey office building fronting onto East Wall Road. Two one-bed live/work units with commercial space. Forty-six apartments in 15-storey corner building at junction of East Wall Road and Alfie Byrne Road. Twenty apartments in a rectilinear block of seven storeys fronting onto East Wall Road and 37 apartments in a nine-storey block fronting onto Alfie Byrne Road. Provision of 213 car parking spaces and 172 cycle spaces. Applicant: Tom Canavan Motors Ltd.
Compiled by Mary Hetherington
