An interim order restraining work on the site of the former St Anne's Hospital in Dublin was continued by consent at the High Court yesterday.
The injunction was granted last week after Dublin Corporation complained a protected building on the site had been substantially demolished in breach of planning permission, and others were at risk. Works being carried out by Park Developments Ltd on the site were claimed to be in breach of planning permission.
Yesterday, Ms Carol O'Farrell, for the corporation, said the developers were consenting to the matter being adjourned for two weeks with the interim order continuing for that period. Mr Eamon Galligan, for Park, said his side needed time to file replying affidavits.
Mr Justice Kearns said he would continue the order, which restrains any works apart from safety works on the site, and adjourned the matter on that basis.
Last week, the court was told Park was the owner and developer of the site at Northbrook Road. The company had secured, subject to 18 conditions, planning permission from An Bord Pleanala on January 11th, 2000, to carry out a mixed development of office and residential buildings there.
Preliminary building and demolition works had begun within the past few weeks but, following complaints, those works were inspected by the corporation's planning enforcement officer. The court was told he found a protected structure, number 7 Northbrook Road, had been substantially demolished without planning permission and it was feared that demolition might further endanger the other protected buildings on the site.
The court was told that, while some demolition was permitted under the planning permission, the permission stated that numbers 7 to 10 were to be retained.