Planning precedent report

The development will consist of alterations to opening hours of the premises permitted under Condition No.2 of previously granted permission (Ref: 4297/16) from between 11.00 hours and 23:00 hours daily to opening hours between 12:00pm to 12:00am Monday to Thursday inclusive and between 12:00pm to 1:00am Friday to Sunday inclusive.

For change of use from vacant unused retail unit to coffee shop opening hours of business 8.00am to 5.00pm with new external signage comprising a main sign light box to be mounted above the shop front.

Planning Permission for a development at the Metro Hotel at Ballymun Road & Santry Avenue, Santry Cross, Ballymun, Dublin 9. The development involves the addition of 3 No. extra floors at 5th, 6th and 7th floor above the 5 storey podium of the hotel which will now be eight storeys overall; the conversion and change of use of 6 No. existing apartments at sixth floor and seventh floor level to 14 No. hotel bedrooms; a change of use of the retail unit (152 sq.m) at ground floor to hotel use. The proposed development will result in an additional 45 No. hotel bedrooms. 3 No. bedrooms to be located at ground floor and the remaining 42 No. rooms over three floors located at fifth - seventh floor. A new rooftop garden at fifth floor is proposed at the southern corner of the hotel. The development will have a total of 133 No. hotel bedrooms and 24 No. residential apartments in the main block. The proposed development also seeks additional illuminated signage on the east and west elevations; associated external lighting, the removal of 2 No. double doors at ground floor on the western elevation on Ballymun Road and at the eastern elevation; the addition of 2 No. windows at ground floor of the eastern elevation; a new pedestrian gate and 2 metre boundary railing to the south of Ballymun Road and all associated ancillary site works.

PERMISSION The development will consist of Installation of a radio friendly screen extending 2.25 m in height along the parapet of the hotel rooftop, the purpose of which is to screen antenna, dishes, and all other ancillary equipment. Relocation, where required, inside the proposed screening area of the ballast poles carrying antenna, dishes, and all other ancillary equipment at the hotel rooftop level. All associated site, landscaping and ancillary works.

PERMISSION: The development will consist of:Permission for a radio friendly screen extending 1.5 m in height with a combined area of approx 80 m in length above the upper roof parapet, the purpose of which is to screen the equipment. Permission is also sought for the relocation inside the proposed screening area of the ballast poles carrying antenna, dishes, and all other ancillary equipment at the upper roof level.

The development will consist of: Alterations to the previously approved works (Planning Ref: 4059/21) consisting of change of use from hotel office space to an accessible hotel room, alterations to the previously approved internal screen to an external screen, new fire escape doors to main hotel entrance elevation and all associated internal and external alterations to facade, site, drainage, ancillary and landscaping works.