An appeals board has overturned Dublin City Council's refusal of planning permission for a hotel development at 19-24 St Andrew’s Street. Appalachian Property Holdings Ltd's plans include an 111-bedroom hotel, a publicly accessible bar and restaurant, and the retention of retail space at ground floor level.
The plans by Appalachian Property Holdings Ltd include the operation of an An Post branch on the ground floor continuingand dismissed its inspector’s own refusal recommendation to grant planning permission to Appalachian Property Holdings Ltd for changing the use of three floors from office to hotel and construct a new six-storey extension at 19-24 St Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2.
The site is located less than 500m from College Green and Grafton Street and in refusing planning permission for the scheme in January 2024 the council cited the ongoingAre the magnificent seven losing their shine in 2025? The council stated that taking into account the ongoing housing crisis, national planning policy and the clear direction in the current development plan in terms of promoting mixed-use development with a focus on residential in the city centre, the proposed change of use to hotel did not represent the best use of the upper floors of this partially vacant city-centre site.
The board stated that in deciding not to accept its own inspector’s recommendation to refuse planning permission, it did not consider that the proposed works to the protected structure would have a detrimental and irreversible impact on the essential qualities of the building.
HOTEL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING PERMISSION APPEALS BOARD DUBLIN CITY CENTER MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT
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