Planning precedent report

RETENTION: Crestcove Limited is seeking retention planning permission for change of use from retail to medical (doctors surgery) of the 145sqm ground floor unit together with associated signage to the east elevation all at No. 139 Capel Street, Dublin 1, D01 P9K7.

External render of first, second and third floor of existing front elevation from eroding brickwork to a smooth render nap finish and all associated site works.

Development at a c. 0.056 ha site. The development comprises the refurbishment and extension of the existing buildings to provide a 9 no. storey development including hotel, restaurant and roof bar. The development will consist of: A. The removal of the roof of the 2 no. storey (over basement) building fronting Meetinghouse Lane and the interconnected 2 no. storey building to the rear (total floor area c. 647 sq.m); B. The refurbishment of the buildings including the removal of internal floors (238 sq.m) and walls to facilitate the core structure of the proposed development; C. The replacement of the roof at the interconnected 2 no. storey building to the rear and provision of new window openings at mezzanine level; D. The extension of the building fronting Meetinghouse Lane to provide a 9 no. storey (including mezzanine) hotel development comprising 65 no. bedrooms and licenced restaurant (c. 2,547 sq.m total floor area). E. Partial demolition of the western elevation fronting Meetinghouse Lane to provide new windows opening at and entrances and elevational treatment with canopy above hotel entrance and signage (2.2 sq.m) with additional signage at entrance arch at Meetinghouse Lane (2.6 sq.m); F. Publicly accessible enclosed glazed roof garden, licenced restaurant and bar (c. 271 sq.m) at top floor level; G. Reception, storage, kitchen and refuse store and WC at ground floor level, with management office, staff changing facilities and multipurpose meeting room at upper floors; H. Landscaped external courtyard (c. 123 sq.m) including 12 no. bicycle parking spaces. I. Provision of plant at basement, mezzanine and top floor levels and all associated site works, infrastructure and green roof. No works are proposed to the floorspace occupied by Evans Art Supplies.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission to carry out works to the ground floor facade of 2-3 Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7, D07 X6R6, a protected structure, RPS No. 8770. Work comprises the erection of 1 no. 800 mm diameter non- illuminated sign, repainting of exterior at ground floor, removal of paint on granite footings and parapet. Removal of plywood board over entrance. Application of new window decals. Installation of souvenir vending machine.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The proposed development will comprise the conservation, repair and adaption of the protected structure at 2-3 Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7 to facilitate a change of use from artist studios at first, second and third floors, shop at ground floor and storage at basement level of the protected structure to museum and ancillary use at ground first second and third floors and storage at basement level of the protected structure and the demolition of existing structures to the rear of the protected structure to allow the development of new ancillary museum building on lands to the rear of the protected structure as follows: 1. Buildings to the rear of the site which are not protected structures are to be demolished, all boundary party walls to be maintained. 2. The construction of a new building on lands to the rear of the existing protected structure as the new premises of the National Leprechaun Museum, two storeys in height to an overall height of 13.5m (exclusive of roof mounted PV panels), landscaping works to internal courtyard lightwell. Roof to new building at rear to be a combination of flat semi intensive green roof with PV panels and a pitched reflective insulated metal deck roof with brick slip cladding to external perimeter walls and roof top plant with louvered enclosure. 3. Structural intervention works to stabilise the building fabric of the protected structure. 4. Alterations to rear facade of protected structure at ground, first and second floors to facilitate new escape and access stairs to facilitate access from garden, to repair and reinstate original windows, to dismantle and re-build destabilised segment of wall at top floor level, reinstatement of cast iron rain water goods. 5. Repairs to the roof, gutters, rear eaves and front parapet of the protected structure. 6. Works to the front facade of the protected structure at all levels comprising brick, stone, render and jointing cleaning and repair, removal of existing modern shopfront and installation of new shopfront and external articulated shutters, repairs to all existing metal framed windows above ground level, dismantling and re-building destabilised segment of parapet at top floor level. 7 Removal of modern interventions to the interior of the protected structure including partitions, stud walling, false ceilings and modern stairs and installation of new partitions, doors and lift shaft to facilitate proposed new museum use.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: 0.212 Ha. site at Nos 133 & 133A Capel Street, Nos. 136A and 136B Capel Street, Nos 7 and 7A Meetinghouse Lane and No.23, Little Mary Street, Dublin 1 (all Protected Structures with the exception of No. 7A Meetinghouse, Lane, RPS Nos. 1213, 5064, 8772). Part of the site is also known as the former Boland's Bakery (including structures to the rear opening onto Meeting House Lane) referred to as No133B Capel St. in the Record of Protected Structures (also RPS No. 1213). The development amends a permitted hotel development (as granted under DCC Reg. Ref. 3274/20 (ABP Reg. Ref. ABP-309470-21) and subsequently amended by DCC Reg. Ref. 3463/22). The proposed amendments will consist of the following modifications change of use of the function room in Building D to restaurant/bar (c.310 sqm); the increase in height of the permitted building C from c. 15.5 metres to c. 24.4 metres including plant (additional 3 no. storeys including rooftop plant) and associated increase in height of the link bridge between building C and building B; the reduction in height of the building connection between building A and Building B from c. 13.6 metres to c. 11.1 metres; revised back of house and core layout to accommodate an ESB substation and switch room at the south of building B; elevation changes including revised materials treatment s and the omission of cantilever terraces and structural projections on the north, west and east elevations of building B from third to seventh floor levels; the extension of the restaurant/bar in building B (c.60 sqm); changes to building B (former car park) including removal of an additional steel beam and building D (former meeting house) in the perforation of the southern wall to accommodate services and for openings and in the widening of a previously permitted opening to the northern wall; internal changes and reconfigurations; additional plant including roof top plant and all associated development works above and below ground. The proposed amendment will increase the gross floor area of the development from 5,449 sqm to 6,051 sqm and will increase the number of hotel bedrooms from 98 no. to 101 no.