Dublin City Council grants permission for 228-bedroom hotel at Dublin 4, Dublin

In context

It is one of 52 hotel applications Dublin City Council has received in the past twelve months, against 151 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 30 September 2025. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues. The applicant sought a 10-year permission, which sets how long they have to start the development.

The development description, as lodged

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

Pembroke Beach DAC intends to apply for permission for development for a 228 No. bedroom Hotel development (referred to as Phase 2B) (including a café, licenced bar / restaurant, business centre and ancillary elements) on this site of 15.06ha including lands known as the former Irish Glass Bottle & Fabrizia Sites, Poolbeg West, Dublin 4, focused primarily on a net site area of 0.211ha (identified as within the 'A1 Lands') in the Poolbeg West Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme (April 2019) (as amended). The overall site is bounded to the: north-west by Sean Moore Road; north-east by South Bank Road; south-east by Dublin Port lands and Dublin Bay; and south-west by Sean Moore Park. The overall site subsumes the 4.3ha site of the 'Infrastructure Permission' (Reg. Ref. PWSDZ3270/19) for which Dublin City Council issued a Notification of Final Decision (10-year Permission) on 28 January 2020, permitting streets, transportation, water services and utilities' infrastructure; public realm and public amenity spaces (including the Village Green and Dog Park); and temporary landscaping of a school site, to facilitate Phase 1 development as provided for under the Poolbeg West SDZ Planning Scheme (2019) (as amended) as approved by An Bord Pleanála. The proposed Phase 2B Hotel Scheme development will consist of: • Construction of a 228 No. bedroom Hotel development ('Block Q') (10,593 sq m GFA (excluding basement)) comprising a 20 No. storey landmark tower (with set-back storey at Sixteenth Floor Level 16) over two levels of basement (2,054 sq m), to provide: Hotel and ancillary uses, café, licenced bar / restaurant and ancillary spaces, business centre; and ancillary back-of-house facilities / spaces (including ESB Substation and associated ancillary rooms, bin store, laundry store, staff changing rooms, staff canteen, staff office and sprinkler tank and associated spaces). • Provision of 8 No. car parking spaces (including 1 No. accessible car parking spaces) and 1 No. service vehicle delivery bay at Basement Level -01, provision of 24 No. secure long-stay bicycle parking spaces for staff at Basement Level -01, and provision of 16 No. new short-stay bicycle parking spaces at surface level for visitors and provision of 1 No. new cargo bicycle parking space at surface level to service the proposed Hotel. • Amendment of the permitted Phase 2 Residential Scheme (Reg. Ref. PWSDZ3700/24) and Phase A Commercial Scheme (Reg. Ref. PWSDZ3798/24): • In those external landscaped areas at Ground Floor Level in the immediate curtilage of the proposed Phase 2B Hotel Scheme site (including 'Gabbard Street' and 'South Bank Link Street') (within the focused site area) to facilitate amendments to permitted layouts, including the omission of 1 No. permitted EV-charging car parking space, the relocation of 1 No. accessible car parking space and 1 No. EV-charging car parking space, the relocation of 20 No. permitted short-stay bicycle parking spaces; provision of 1 No. new loading / pick-up/drop-off bay; addition of an access point on South Bank Link Street for proposed ESB substation, materials, urban tree locations and landscaping; • At substructure level to facilitate connections for vehicular movements, pedestrian movements and services between the permitted and proposed substructures. Accessing and servicing of the proposed Phase 2B Hotel Scheme development will be by way of 'Gabbard Street' (previously permitted under the Phase 2 Residential Scheme (Reg. Ref. PWSDZ3700/24) and the Phase A Commercial Scheme (Reg. Ref. PWSDZ3798/24) and also by the permitted vehicular ramp on 'Ouzel Street' to / from the basement of the permitted Phase 2 Residential Scheme (Reg. Ref. PWSDZ3700/24). This Application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).