RefusedDecided 10 January 2020Fingal County Council

F19A/0527: A new standalone, four-storey hotel (3,376.5 square metres), comprising 104 bedrooms and ancillary services, including day café, toilets, reception, foyer, administrative and staff facilities, etc., over a two-level basement car park (1,915 square metres), providing 52 no. car parking spaces, and all associated landscaping, site works and services. Permission is also being sought for demolition of an existing, two storey, pitched roof building within the site, a former builders' providers outlet. The site is bounded to the north by a protected structure, The Old Borough Schoolhouse, a Wetherspoon's Public House, and to the south by a Colortrend Paint outlet. The site is also bounded to the west by the Well Road. The proposed hotel will be built to 'Passive-House' standards of construction and energy conservation. Upon completion, this will be Ireland's first Passive-House certified hotel.

76 Main Street, Swords, Co. Dublin
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DecisionRefuse permission
Decided10 January 2020
Application typePermission
Source documents22

Site

Setting
urban
Site area
1370 ha
Floor area
Not recorded
Units
Not recorded

What is on file

4refusal reasons0conditions8nearby records

Decision details

Core application dates and identifiers from the public planning record.
Application ref
F19A/0527
Received
08 November 2019
Decided
10 January 2020
FI requested
Yes
Authority
Fingal County Council
Application type
Permission
Outcome
refused
Source status
Reasons extracted from source documents

Planning analysis

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Refusal reasons

Design

Insensitive design, poor street animation, bulky scale, and overbearing impact on protected structure RPS No. 357 contradict Swords Master Plan urban design guidelines.

Objective Swords 4, Objective Swords 2, Swords Master Plan 2009
contrary to the urban design guidelines laid down in the Swords Masterplan by way of insensitive design, poor street animation, overly bulky scale and mass, overbearance on neighbouring properties
Traffic Sightlines

No set-down/layby area proposed on a busy Regional Road (R836), creating traffic congestion and public safety hazards.

N/A
The provision of an insufficient set-down area on a busy Regional Road (R836) serving a mixed-use development would give rise to traffic congestion in this area and endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard.
Premature Services

Development premature pending agreed design of the Main Street to Brackenstown Road link. Southern pedestrian footpath lacks linkage to Well Road.

Objective MT41
premature pending the agreed design of the proposed link road... In addition, the proposed pedestrian footpath along the southern boundary appears incomplete with no linkage to Well Road to the west.
Design

Excessive height over 18m abutting a narrow footpath and infringement of the existing building line along Church Road seriously injures area amenities.

N/A
by reason of its position directly abutting the relatively narrow footpath and its excessive height of over 18metres would seriously injure the amenities of the area. In addition the proposed development would infringe the existing building line along Church Road.

Conditions

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