Planning and development news

Major Fortunestown development

A major planning application for a residential and retail development at the junction of Citywest Road and Fortunestown Lane has been lodged by Place Properties. The directors of Place Properties are Brendan Hickey and David Shubotham, who are also directors of Davy Hickey Properties which owns Citywest. The other directors of Place Properties are Sean Mulryan of Ballymore Properties and Joseph Owen Nelson.

The proposal is for 389 residential units, a shopping centre with anchor store, retail units, restaurants, and an external two-storey arcade with ground-floor commercial and retail units, and first-floor offices, restaurants and medical suites. It will have 223 underground parking spaces and surface parking for 340 cars. Also proposed is a crèche, community hall, pubs and restaurant.

Green Isle Hotel extension

Lynch Hotels has been granted permission to extend the Green Isle Hotel in Clondalkin by South Dublin County Council with a new 114-bed extension over a new leisure centre, with a single-storey connection to the existing hotel and decked car-parking. The Green Isle Hotel, formerly owned by Jurys Doyle Group, was bought by Lynch Hotels for €11 million.

Meanwhile, Newlands Cross Hotels, which is controlled by Bert Allen of Slaney Meats in Wexford has had its planning permission to build a 450-bed hotel at Clonshaugh near Dublin airport challenged by Beverly and Christy Gunning. The proposal is for a hotel with a conference centre and swimming pool as well as a leisure centre, restaurant and bar and 914 car-parking spaces. The plan will involve the demolition of a house on the site.

'Nul porches' for the Swiss

The Swiss Embassy has been refused permission to build porches at its entrance doors at Numbers 6 and 8 Ailesbury Road, Dublin 4 "because it would undermine the architectural integrity of these Protected Structure" and depreciate the value of properties in the vicinity in this Residential Conservation Area. The entrance doors are located on an outer recessed bay in each building and are accessed via a flight of steps. It was proposed to remove the pediment detail from the original doorway and relocate over the new porch entrances, and remove some cast-iron railings