A discount chain has got the go-ahead for a supermarket at a prime south Dublin site, reports Edel Morgan
German discount supermarket chain Lidl has been granted planning permission by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to locate at the Bank of Ireland site at Deansgrange crossroads in Co Dublin.
This will involve the demolition of the existing bank premises and the construction of a 1,297 sq m (13,960 sq ft) discount food store and for the construction of a new two-storey 469 sq m (5,048 sq ft) bank premises over basement car-park with ramped access from Kill Lane. There will also be 105 car spaces, 82 of which will be at basement-level. The planning permission comes a year after Galway Developers Bernard Duffy and John Lally failed in their bid to get planning permission for a mixed office and retail development on the site.
An Bord Pleanála upheld an appeal by Deansgrange Traders Association and Monkstown and Salthill Association who were concerned about the effects of the proposed development's excessive scale.
An Bord Pleanála overturned planning permission for that scheme because it could endanger public safety "by reasons of traffic hazard" and said it "failed to exploit the opportunity for a landmark development on this prominent corner site at this crossroads".
