Site planning risk brief

Planning Permission for 2 steel and timber balconies at first floor (one per house) to the front of, 1 Stable Lane, Cambridge Road, Rathmines, Dublin D06 C951 and 3 Stable Lane, Cambridge Road, Rathmines, Dublin D06 HD35.

Planning permission for a second floor home office with WC extension set back 2.4m to the front, giving a terrace screened by translucent glass, and set back 1m to the rear on an existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of creation of a new opening on the side wall of the existing side rear return at ground floor level. Provision of a new single storey extension to the existing side rear return. Removal of two existing sheds. Provision of a new shed. Construction of a new patio area and all associated site works. Internal alterations to the existing house include the refurbishment of a sash window.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of works to the existing dwelling, a protected structure, as follows: to front elevation: at garden level reinstate original window opening and replace window with new timber sash, new timber entrance screen, new door to under stair. To side elevation (at return): changes to window/door openings, omit 1no. window opening, remove steps, new drainage/rainwater goods. To rear elevation: enlarge window opening at garden level to form doorway. To rear elevation (at return): new door opening and new rainwater goods. To rear garden: reduce level to rear terrace and form new brick planters. To front garden: form new vehicle access gate from Castlewood Park and provide parking space to front garden. At pitched roofs: relay pitched roofs to incorporate membrane under slates, lay all new valleys/flashings, install 1no. new rooflight and new solar panels to inner roofs, replace existing rooflight. New membrane and omit rooflight at flat roof to return. Internally: make layout changes including structural openings at: garden level, return at all levels, and at first floor; new breathable floor slab at garden level, tanking and wall insulation to garden level external walls, reduce floor levels to return at garden level and first return, new secondary glazing to 2no. front floor sash windows. Generally: strip all plumbing/heating and electrical services and install all new systems, remove non-original fittings, install new fittings and redecorate, and any associated repairs, drainage works and builders works.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission is sought for demolition of existing single storey rear extension & construction of a new single storey rear extension plus the full refurbishment & modernisation of existing dwelling with alterations to interior to include a new dormer to existing two storey rear annex, new conservation roof lights to front & rear, new hardwood sash windows to front & rear & all site & ancillary works.

RETENTION. PROTECTED STRUCTURE. Retention for alterations to the existing rear boundary reducing the overall area of the site which is an alteration to previously approved Planning Permission Ref 4569/06 at Cambridge Lodge, 14a Cambridge Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6, A Protected Structure.