3303/22: Permission for development to amend a previously permitted hotel scheme (Dublin City Council Reg. Ref. 2245/16 & An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL29S. 246463; as extended by Dublin City Council Reg. Ref. 2245/16/X1; and as amended by Dublin City Council Reg. Ref. 4264/18 & An Bord Pleanala Ref. ABP-303942-19) at a 0.138 ha site at Nos. 16-18 Pembroke Street Lower and Windsor Place, Dublin 2, D02 EC63. The site is principally bounded to the: northwest by buildings on Windsor Place; northeast by No. 15 Pembroke Street Lower and buildings on Mackies Place, and Windsor Place; southeast by Pembroke Street Lower; and southwest by Nos. 51-52 Fitzwilliam Square West, Dublin 2. The proposed development, which provides for alterations to the permitted hotel development with related hotel facilities including restaurant, public bar, reception and seating areas, storage, administration and staff facilities, other hotel-related back -of-house areas, plant (including substation with associated switch room), waste storage area and cycle parking, will consist of: demolition of the front (southeast) facade and the construction of a new front (southeast) facade to include juliet balconies and revised pedestrian entrances; demolition of the remaining existing floor plates from Basement Level to Fourth Floor (1,305 sq m) previously to be retained and the construction of replacement floor area (1,305 sq m) from Basement Level to Fourth Floor with revised finished floor levels; further revisions to floor plates includiing the: extension (15 sq m) to the southeast and the provision of a new lightwell (29 sq m reduction in floor area) at Basement Level, provision of a lightwell and courtyard (44 sq m reduction in area) at Lower Ground Floor Level, alterations to entrance (resulting in a 7 sq m reduction in area) at Ground Floor Level, extension to provide a full floor (189sq m) and further recess at the southeast facade of the rear block (reduction of 2 sq m) at Mezzanine Level, further recess at the southeast facade of the rear block (reduction of 2 sq m) at both First and Second Floor Levels, the floor area of the permitted Third and Fourth Floor Levels to remain unaltered; alterations to internal layouts at Basement Level to replace meeting rooms and a hotel gym with additional hotel bedrooms and at Lower Ground Floor Levels to replace part of the dining room/bar, circulation and back of house areas with additional hotel bedrooms; and internal alterations to the layout of the Ground Floor Level reception, lobby and cafe/bar. The proposed development will result in the net increase in floor area of 118 sq m and 23 No. additional hotel bedrooms, resulting in a 6 storey (including a roof level store room) over basement and lower ground floor level hotel building with 125 No. bedrooms and a total gross floor area of 5, 638 sq m. The proposed development also consists of associated hard and soft landscaping; and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground including changes in level, boundary treatments and associated site servicing (foul and surface water drainage and water supply).

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