Plan for former Cottage Home in Dun Laoghaire appealed:Developer Robin Power's plans for a luxury housing development at the former Cottage Home site on Tivoli Road in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála by neighbouring residents.
He is looking to build six four-bedroom houses in a Victorian-style terrace to the rear of the Cottage Home facing onto Royal Terrace North and to convert the Cottage Home into five large two and three-bedroom homes. His plans were submitted in two separate applications to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and permission was granted earlier this year.
In a letter to An Bord Pleanála, Philip Murphy and Robert Pocock of 6 and 4 Royal Terrace West said that, since both planning applications relate to the same development, the plans should have been the subject of a single planning application and not two. Both applications involve the severance of a protected structure from its curtilage, they state. They described the plans for a terrace infill as "poor quality pastiche" and said it would be "totally inconsistent" with the council's policy on architectural conservation areas.
Norman Noonan of Royal Terrace West said in a letter to the planning board that the Cottage Home "is being compromised at the expense of the new development".
70 apartments in six-storey block planned for Liberties
Plans for a new apartment development in the heart of Dublin's Liberties have been lodged with Dublin City Council. H Coyle is seeking to build a six-storey apartment block on the site of an abattoir bounded by Carmans Hall, Spitafields and Garden Lane. The 0.5-acre site is to be redeveloped into a 70-unit apartment scheme with 51 car-parking spaces.
Bord rejects mixed-use plan for Madigan's pub in Donnybrook
The owners of Madigan's Pub in Donnybrook have been refused permission to demolish the pub and an adjoining flower shop for a mixed-use development. An Bord Pleanála has upheld Dublin City Council's decision to turn down the plans for the scheme, which incorporates four apartments, a shop and café/bar/restaurant over three storeys. The development would seriously injure the visual amenities of the area, according to the planning board.
