Council allows demolition of 100-year-old cottages to facilitate a hotel development

In 2015, An Bord Pleanála and Dublin City Council rejected plans by Arcourt for a four-storey development containing 33 apart-hotel suites – citing the “scale and height” of the project and “historical value” of cottages “dating from 1908.”

Last November, Arcourt re-submitted a scaled-down planning application for a three-storey development containing 23 apart-hotel suites in two blocks, and six two-bed apartments situated around a central landscaped courtyard, plus the demolition of cottages 11-14 on Old Naas Road.

The cottages (11-14) are owned by the company and occupied on short-term lettings.

A number of objections were lodged with the local authority and ABP over the plans.

Residents cited concerns about the area’s historical character, size and scale of the proposed development, and existing traffic problems in the area.

In granting permission for the application, city planners said the applicant “appears to have addressed concerns” of the roads traffic department.

Permission was granted, subject to a number of conditions, which include a fee of €213,000 to the planning authority, and that the apart-hotel and apartments shall operate as “constituent elements of the existing Sheldon Park Hotel, and not be separated or divided from the facility by means of sale, lease or otherwise.”

Conditions also state the developer shall retain a suitably qualified licensed archaeologist to advise regarding the implications of site clearance.

The developer shall also pay a sum of €4,000 per residential unit to the planning authority under the Planning and Development Act.

Planning permission was granted by the council on March 2.

 

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