Dublin City Council grants permission for 195-bedroom hotel at 12 Camden Row, Saint Kevin's, Dublin

In context

It is one of 52 hotel applications Dublin City Council has received in the past twelve months, against 154 nationally. Of the 316 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 1 December 2023. 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.

Permission for development at this (c. 0.113 ha) site. The development will consist of the demolition of the existing building on site (c. 2,155.9 sq.m) and the construction of a 7 storey (over basement) hotel (total height c. 22.45 metres above ground level) with setback upper floor (including external terrace), providing 195 bedrooms with reception, gallery and restaurant, patio area and garden at the western elevation at ground floor level, cycle parking accessed from Camden Row, plant and staff facilities at basement and ground floor level, landscaping, waste storage area at the eastern elevation at ground level, alongside substation and switch room (accessed via undercroft from Camden Row), sedum green/ blue roof and all associated works to facilitate the development. The total gross floor area proposed is c. 5,511.1 sqm including a c. 614.4 sqm basement.