Planning precedent report

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: PERMISSION for development at this site at 55/56 LEESON STREET UPPER, DUBLIN 4. The development will consist of: PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for repairs and alterations to boundary ironwork at Nos.55 and 56 Leeson Street Upper which are Protected Structures (RPS Ref. Nos. 4509 & 4510). The works for which permission is sought are reconfiguration of the existing altered gateway to provide for a central vehicular sliding gate, a pedestrian gate, and timber-cladded bin storage area located to the front of property. The works also include repointing of the granite plinth and painting of the ironwork.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: apply for planning permission for works to include an additional bedroom, amended living areas, dormer windows, adjusted entrance door and new garden access door all at 7 Fitzwilliam Way, Leeson Street Upper, Dublin 4, D04 H1W5, within the curtilage of 52 Leeson Street Upper D04 H7X4, a protected structure.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: RETENTION permission is sought for installation of vehicular turntable and electric vehicle charging point to front driveway. The property is a protected structure.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE:The development will consist of a change of use from office use, on garden, first & second floor, to a single family dwelling. The proposal also entails: the removal of asbestos including asbestos slates in accordance with current regulations; conservation of any original slates and allow for new slates to replace asbestos slates to the main roof and rear return roof; the removal of the water tank and P.V.C roof light to rear return to allow for reinstatement of oval roof light; conservation works and minor alterations and renovations to the interior and exterior of the house; upgrading of mechanical and electrical installation to current standards; the removal of 20th c. office w.c.s to rear ground floor return; construction of new bathrooms to ground floor and first floor return; the removal of 20th c. windows to rear return at ground floor and first floor; the reinstatement of round window and door at side of rear return at basement level; conservation works to the original sash windows to the front and rear; repair and refurbishment of front door and fanlight, the removal of sash window to rear basement to allow for new French doors; fitting new French windows with window guard in these openings; the removal of the tarmac to the rear garden to allow for reinstatement of the garden for residential use and the decrease in parking of seven spaces to residential parking accessed from the existing rear entrance gate at Sibthorpe Lane.

The development will consist of: (i) alterations to existing boundary wall and fence to provide a new 6.6m sliding gate for pedestrian and vehicular access via Leeson Street Upper; (ii) the construction of 4 no. four-storey, three-bedroom, terraced townhouses. Each townhouse to be provided with a pedestrian access at lower ground floor and a stepped access at upper ground floor via Leeson Street Upper, pedestrian access to rear of each dwelling via Mitchell House’s private internal road, 1 no. internal carport, rooflights, and private external terraces on upper ground floor and second floor of each dwelling; (iii) all ancillary site works including new boundary treatments, site clearance, tree removal, hard and soft landscaping, provision of bin storage, ESB meter box, foul drainage and SuDS measures as necessary to facilitate the development.

RETENTION: The development consists of the erection of hoarding featuring branding graphics fixed to existing metal railings facing Appian Way and Leeson Street Upper.