Planning news to keep your eye on
Objections to Four Courts hotel
Plans to build a seven-storey hotel on a site adjacent to the Four Courts in Dublin will "spoil" the image of Dublin, according to An Taisce. Pierse Contracting are seeking planning permission from Dublin City Council to build a 98-bed hotel at 31 to 36 Ormond Quay Upper. The development would, if given approval, also front onto Ormond Place, Ormond Square and Charles Street West. One of nine objectors, An Taisce said the development would "spoil the famous composition of the Four Courts dome rising above the Georgian scale terraces on the quays".
161 apartments in Donaghmede
Gannon Homes have been given permission to build 161 apartments on lands at Grange, Father Collins Park in Donaghmede, Dublin 13.
Also, Dublin City Council have also given permission to Swampton Holdings to partially demolish the Gala Cinema in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10 and build 97 apartments. Meanwhile, plans for a major revamp of Crumlin House in Dublin 12, along with the construction of 65 apartments on the site on St Teresa's Road, have been lodged with Dublin City Council.
Scheme in special Blackrock site
Proposals to build a housing development on the grounds of Chesterfield, the home of the late co-founder of Roadstone, Tom Roche, have been given the green light. The large period home on almost nine acres at Cross Avenue, Blackrock, was bought for €45 million in 2004 by Mr Myles Crofton of Naus Developments. Now Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council have given approval for 76 houses and 45 apartments to Mr Crofton's Avenue Homes.
Churchtown residents to appeal
Residents from Churchtown, Dublin 14, have appealed planning permission to build 407 homes on the site of the former Premier Dairies. St James' Developments were given the green light for the scheme on the 3.75-hectare site on Whitehall Road earlier this year, but residents from the Whitebarn Road, Whitehall Road, Castle Court Road, Nugent Road and Berwick Hall area, who are due to lodge an appeal to An Bord Pleanála, said the scheme will result in over-intensification of a restricted site and would be incompatible with the density of existing housing.
