Planning precedent report

Change of use of a single storey building constructed to the rear of the hotel. The building was originally approved as a Conference Centre, associated with the hotel. A series of temporary permissions were granted to allow music and dancing in association with the use of this building and those permissions have now expired. Permission is now sought to use this area as a standard hotel function room for conferences, functions and other similar uses associated with a hotel.

RETENTION PERMISSION for (a) externally illuminated signs promoting supermarket and restaurant in three positions on the tower (east, north and west face) (b) internally LED illuminated replacement sign on and over entrance canopy to hotel on west elevation.

The development consists of permission was granted on 12th February 2019 by An Bord Pleanala (Reg. Ref. 3353/18 and ABP-302507), for a period of 2 years to operate the conference centre at the hotel subject to conditions relating to (a) the use and opening hours of the conference centre, (b) the noise level not to be exceeded from the conference centre. Condition three of the permission required the operation of the conference centre to be reviewed before February 2021. That permission has now expired. An application was submitted (Reg. Ref. 3529/20) before that date but was subsequently considered withdrawn by the Planning Authority. This application seeks to relodge that application and permission is now sought to continue to operate the centre subject to the remaining conditions in the permission applying to the centre and without the need to repeatedly apply every 2 years.

Planning permission is sought to carry out a development involving the demolition of an existing single storey building, (565 sq.m) in use as a retail unit, to the front of the Bonnington (formerly Regency) Hotel and the construction of a 5, 6 and 7 storey building as a separate room only hotel at the Bonnington Hotel site on Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9. The new building (with a total floor area of 8,768sq.m) will be used as a room-only hotel containing a reception area, coffee shop (350sq.m) and work space (78sq.m) for guests and an ESB substation at ground floor, a total of 234 guest bedrooms on the upper floors and a double basement with 142 car parking spaces and 76 bicycle spaces for use by the hotel. The proposed development will also contain services and all other ancillary works to service the hotel and will involve the reconfiguration of the existing car parking and landscaping to the existing hotel.

RETENTION PERMISSION: The development consists of a single story extension with disabled bathroom (4.7m2), a laundry (5m2), a covered buggy bay (12m2) to the west elevation at ground level of the existing building along with a ramp to allow disabled access to the main entrance on the south elevation.

1. Construction of a first floor flat roof side extension to consist of a master bedroom with en-suite and walk in wardrobe to the rear and a new en-suite to serve the existing front bedroom. 2. General remodel of first floor layout to suit the proposed design. 3. All drainage, structural and associated site works to be implemented.