Planning precedent report

Permission for change of use of existing single storey building from gym to retail and café, sub-division into 3 units: retail unit no. 1-253sqm, café unit no.2-45sqm and retail unit no.3-132sqm, amendments to existing elevations, new shopfront windows and doors at front and side elevations, new steel platform for new fire escape door at side, new signage and ancillary works.

Change of use from retail use to recreational use of two existing rooms and toilet facilities located at rear of existing single storey building, installation of proposed new signage at the east side boundary wall at front of the site and ancillary site works.

Permission for development at existing vacant retail unit on ground floor 8b Main Street, Raheny, Dublin 5, D05 P2X4. The development will consist of the change of use of the ground floor retail unit to cafe / restaurant use, comprised of kitchen, provision of sanitary accommodation, service and seating area within the existing unit. New replacement signage will be installed on the existing shopfront fascia. Permission is also sought for the installation of air conditioning grill vents at high level on side, south facing laneway.

(a) installing a retractable awning to the existing shopfront and (b) installing a projecting bakery sign board to the façade.

3 No. three-storey terraced houses, of total area 522 sq.m., and overall height c. 10.4 sq.m., with vehicular access to Main Street, Raheny, and associated site works including three car parking spaces (one accessible) landscaping, road works etc.; planning permission was granted (planning ref: 2322/19) on the site for three similarly configured houses of total area 568 sq.m., as part of a larger development.

RETENTION: The development consists of a children's breakfast club, preschool and after school care centre, with opening hours 7.45am to 6pm weekdays. (This is an application for continuation of previously granted permissions 2150/06 and 6447/07 for an after school day care centre).