Planning precedent report

1. Change of use of the full two storey building from Credit Union use to Coffee Shop use. 2. Erection of 1.2m railing surround on site boundary fronting onto Curzon Street to define an external seating area. 3. Installation of retractable awning to fascia of existing shopfront for full shopfront width. 4. All ancillary site and ground works including maintaining the existing public drainage connections which are unaffected by the proposed works.

RETENTION & PERMISSION: 1) retention of new door access to rear roof from 1st floor & 2) permission to use a portion of the rear roofs a terrace and erect guarding to the proposed roof terrace.

Permission is sought for: The proposed installation of a Parasol for the purposes of enhancing an outdoor seating area so as to service the existing restaurant/takeaway business.

Development will consist of converting from two self-contained unit dwellings to one, two-storey house with 3 bedrooms by adding internal stairs connecting basement to entrance level. Demolition of a single-storey extension to rear and construction of new part-single, part two-storey domestic extension to the rear containing extended kitchen with flat roof at basement level and extended bedroom at rear upper/entrance level.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of the following works at no. 54 Heytesbury Street; replacement of the front facade, internal walls and ground floor, the enclosure of the existing external yard at basement and ground floor levels, the reduction of the basement floor level, a new external access route and door to the existing basement store, a change of use to the ground floor from storage to commercial use as a surgery and the incorporation of an external amenity space at roof level serving the existing house. Development works at no. 55 Heytesbury Street will consist of internal amendments to the previously granted permission ref. 2006/19 at ground floor level and the addition of a new bedroom extension at first floor level which will serve the main house. All associated above and below ground site works are to be included as part of the proposed development works at no. 54 and 55.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for development at this site – nos. 54 & 55, Heytesbury Street, Portobello, Dublin 8. (No. 55 Heytesbury Street is a protected structure.) The development will consist of the following works at no. 54 Heytesbury Street; the incorporation of balustrading (1.1m in height) at the east (front) and west (rear) parapets at roof level of the single storey over basement structure to allow for safe access to the area for service and maintenance purposes. Development works at no. 55 Heytesbury Street will consist of the addition of a new single storey access corridor extension (area 4 sq.m) at first floor level. The proposed corridor extension will be situated at the west (rear) of the site and will extend from the north end of the main three storey over basement structure. The corridor extension will give access to a terrace at first floor level (15sq.m) which will serve the main house and will extend to the east (front) parapet. All associated above and below ground site works are to be included as part of the proposed development works at nos. 54 and 55 Heytesbury Street.