Site planning risk brief

Single storey rear extension, attic conversion with raised ridge height for dormer to rear plus garage at rear with vehicular access opposite Jamestown Court.

The development will consist of conversion/change of use of a redundant communal facility within a sheltered housing scheme to form a 1 bed 2 person apartment and a further development of two 1 bed 2 person apartments as a new build extension constructed over two floors at the gable end of the existing building. The existing A Block bin store will be relocated to facilitate this. The new works are to include: Change of use of a redundant communal facility will form a 62.9 sq.m. 1bed 2person apartment. A further ground and first floor extension will form two further 56.88 sq.m. 1bed 2person apartments. Access to the upper apartment will be via a new external staircase and lift. The new build extension will be located on the gable end, to the eastern boundary of A Block. The existing bin store enclosure will be demolished, and a new bin store erected external to the eastern boundary within lands owned by ALONE. New security fencing will enclose this store. Level access will be offered to all three units' front doors and new rear patios. Existing external walls will be externally insulation clad and rendered. The new build portion of the development will be traditional block and cavity wall insulation construction with external self-coloured render. The roof of the extension will be a flat timber deck with nominal falls for drainage and finished in a polymeric membrane above rigid insulation. Existing car parking, vehicular and pedestrian access points and communal clothes drying areas are unaffected by the proposal.

Planning permission for the following: (a) Demolition of 2 no. 2 storey apartment buildings (b) Construction of 2 no. apartment buildings comprising of 1 no. 3 storey block and 1 no. 4 storey block containing 43 no. 1 bedroom apartments with private balconies (total 2325 sq.m) accessed off covered external walkways together with community facilities including community centre on ground floor of proposed Block A (105 sq.m), landscaped courtyard, mobility storage area (18.65 sq.m), refuse store (28 sq.m) together with all associated site works including 6 no carparking spaces plus 44 no. bicycle spaces and ESB sub station. (c) The site works to include upgrade of open space amenity area for completed phase 1 of overall development.

The conversion of attic space with new dormer roof to the rear and two new Velux roof windows to the front and all associated works.

PERMISSION: Construction of two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling comprising of sitting room and dining room at ground floor level and 2no. bedrooms at first floor, single storey extension to the rear comprising of kitchen and utility, single storey extension to the front comprising of living room extension and porch.

Planning permission to widen existing site entrance and construction of a double storey extension to the rear of the existing terraced house comprising a living/dining room to the ground floor, two single bedrooms to the first floor of the new extension. Alterations to the existing house front elevation including extended playroom. All to be constructed behind existing boundary walls at 51 Jamestown Avenue, Inchicore, Dublin 8.