Dublin City Council refuses permission for 100-bedroom hotel at Nos, 46, 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 4 December 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.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: PERMISSION The proposed development will consist of the following works to accommodate a 100-bedroom hotel with café and bar at ground floor level: Removal of asbestos sheeting from the roof of the single-storey kitchen at the rear of No.46 Baggot Street Upper (Langkawi Restaurant on the ground floor, and the dental practice on the upper floors of No.46 both remain in place), demolition of an 89 sq.m, two-storey extension (built in 1984) from the rear of No.48 Baggot Street Upper (the retail unit on the ground floor of No.48 remains), change the use of the upper floors of No.48 from offices to hotel with proposed separate entrance via new, ground-floor, side-door onto Baggot Street Upper, at No.48, demolition of 194 sq.m. existing two-storey gym at No. 50 Eastmoreland Lane, removal all twentieth-century, flat-roof extensions totalling 417 sq.m from the rear of Nos.52.54 Baggot Street Upper, change the use of Nos 52-54 Baggot Street Upper from bank branch to hotel, and construct a new building to the rear of Nos 46,48,50 & 52-54 Baggot Street Upper of four storeys with dormer floor set back including basement floor for services & back-of house facilities including staff facilities, toilets, plant rooms and staff bicycle parking. The development includes a loading bay and bin storage area off Eastmoreland Lane together with SUDS features including a green/blue roof and a landscaped courtyard at ground floor, and all ancillary site development and excavation works above and below ground. (G.FA. 4,650 square metres). Nos. 46, 48 & 52-54 Baggot Street Upper are Protected Structures (R.P.S. Nos.462, 463 & 465).