Dublin City Council grants permission for 182-bedroom hotel at Dublin 8, Dublin

In context

It is one of 52 hotel applications Dublin City Council has received in the past twelve months, against 150 nationally. Of the 317 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 88% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 22 October 2024. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Dublin City Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

Planning permission for demolition of all existing buildings/structures on site (approximately 1,020 sq.m GFA) and the relocation of an existing ESB substation to the ground floor of the proposed building fronting onto Molyneux Yard together with new switchroom. The proposed development comprises the erection of a part 5, part 8-storey mixed use building over single basement (approximately 7,509 sq.m GFA) to provide principally for a new hotel (182 bedrooms) and ancillary development at basement to seventh floor level. A total of 22 bicycle parking spaces are provided at ground floor level. A Creative Art Studio (approximately 122 sq.m GFA) is proposed at ground floor level and basement level. The proposed building is set back at ground and first floor level from the southern, eastern and western site boundaries to provide lightwells serving basement level. The hotel entrance is accessed off an arched, internal, shared pedestrian and vehicular street running east-west across the northern part of the site connecting Vicar Street and Molyneux Yard. The upper levels of the building (from first floor and above) cantilever over the proposed internal street and the upper levels (from second floor and above) cantilever over the proposed lightwells along the southern, eastern and western site boundaries, respectively. The development will include all site works that comprise of all boundary treatments and associated site works, at site bound by Vicar Street to the east and Molyneux Yard to the west, the site adjoins public space to the south that fronts onto Swift's Alley further to the South, Dublin 8.