Redevelopment of ‘D4 gem’ on Haddington Road wins planning approval over objections
The owners of Smyths Pub on Dublin's Haddington Road have won approval to demolish the building. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Dublin City Council has given the go-ahead for plans to demolish a “D4 gem” - Smyth’s pub on Haddington Rd - and replace it with a larger pub and apartments despite locals’ fears about a superpub.
Courtney Lounge Bars Ltd has secured permission to demolish all existing buildings on site at 10 Haddington Rd and construct a mixed-use building over four and five floors, comprising a pub at basement and ground floor levels and six apartments on the upper floors. The council decided the scheme “would not seriously injure the amenities of the area or property in the vicinity”. The permission, with 14 conditions attached, came after Courtney Lounge Bars Ltd made design changes to its original scheme. The Council planner’s report said those alterations “are greatly appreciated”.Children will receive over €500 on average for their Communion. Where should you put it? I’m in my 70s and have €500,000 in savings. If I need to go into a nursing home, what happens if I run out of money?Planners said the changes have delivered a plan for development that balances visual interest and attention to detail that “creates an architectural presence in a volume which does not jar with the adjoining structures”. Pembroke Rd Association had expressed concerns over the initial proposals, saying that “a local pub can be a wonderful social amenity in a mixed residential area, as Smyth’s has been over the years, but a ‘super’ pub in the same type of area is a problem”. Susan McCarrick, for the residents' association, told the council the development “is clearly too high and we have a concern with its bulk and massing and general visual dominance”. Former journalist Frank McDonald in a submission had said that “protecting Dublin’s heritage is important”. “Smyth’s pub may not have retained as much of its Victorian interior as Toners and Doheny & Nesbitt’s on Baggot Street or Keogh’s on South Anne Street, but it is of real value as a remnant of ‘old Dublin’,” he said. Mr McDonald noted that the pub’s own website described itself as a “D4 gem”. “Now this ‘D4 Gem’, sandwiched as it is between brasher elements of ‘New Dublin’, is destined for the chopping block, to be replaced by a significantly larger bar extending over the entire ground-floor area from Haddington Road to Percy Place.” Local resident Elizabeth O’Sullivan said Smyths already attracted large crowds, which tend to spill out onto the pavement at busy times. “This naturally causes an increase in noise level which can make it difficult to get to sleep. The proposed development involves an increase in the size of the pub, and therefore will exacerbate this problem,” Ms O’Sullivan said.Famous Dublin city centre pub hits the market at €4.25mNathan McDonnell’s carry-on-as-normal behaviour suggested a profound dissociation from the €32m of crystal meth in his yardUN may have to halve rations to Rohingya refugees without urgent fundingIreland v France: Doris, Bealham, Aki and Keenan set to make starting line-up
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