Keeping an eye on planning

Belgard Inn redevelopment

• The Belgard Inn in Tallaght, Dublin 24 will be redeveloped as 147 apartments, a public house, bar, convenience store and retail units, if a planning application by the Belgard Partnership is successful. The retail units will include a 880 sq m (9,472 sq ft) convenience store, a video store and betting offices, and there will be a 236 sq m (2,540 sq ft) leisure facility.

The development will be in two blocks and the application is seeking permission for an off-street taxi and bus pick-up area along Cookstown Road and the provision of a new access road on New Belgard Road for delivery access. It also proposes 25 surface-level car-parking spaces, 240 car spaces below ground level and a car-park.

New scheme for Mount St Annes

• Park Developments is seeking permission to build a further 217 apartments at its popular luxury scheme, Mount St Annes at Milltown Road Dublin 6. It is also proposing two shops, a replacement parish hall, a gym and fitness centre, creche and childcare facilities, a health centre with four consultation rooms, 324 underground car-parking spaces, and a new vehicular access by an extension off Convent Avenue.

Revamp for Royal Hibernian Way

• The Royal Hibernian Way, off Dawson Street, Dublin 2, which is owned by Friends First, is to be revamped. According to Roger Mansfield of F&C Ireland who manage the property, they are amalgamating the units "in the little leg that runs off Royal Hibernian Way because there is more demand from retailers for larger units".

Four units will be removed allowing the construction of one unit of 149 sq m (1,604 sq ft), two further units will be combined to give 125 sq m (1,345 sq ft), and another two extended and combined to make a 80 sq m (861 sq ft) unit. There will also be a realignment of Lord Mayors Walk. They are also looking to build an office above, linking two existing office blocks.

This will involve the extension of the first and third floors of one office block giving 171 sq m (1,840 sq ft), the removal of the existing rooftop garden and the construction of a fourth floor office of 260 sq m (2,799 sq ft) and a set-back of a fifth floor office of 241 sq m (2,594 sq ft). Another block will be extended by the creation of a fifth floor.