Planning precedent report

Change of use of a permitted cafe to 'café and/or restaurant' use.

Permission is sought for the installation of a new entrance door and steps to the front façade of the ground floor café unit facing onto Cork Street.

Design alterations to development permitted under application ref: SHD0020/20 (ABP- 308162-20) to allow for the provision of a rooftop padel court (10.0m wide x 20.0m long x 7.0m high), at fifth-floor level, including glass screens, netting and illumination.

Change of use from existing retail (186.8m2) to café with coffee roaster (186.8m2) to ground floor of building only, addition of kitchen, staff WC, and flue.

Planning permission for development will consist of the construction of new replacement shop-fronts and the upgrade of the facade to No's. 124, 124A and 125 Cork Street, Dublin 8. The proposed works will include: (a) new shop fronts, surrounds, render and backlit signage to the ground floor, (b) new windows, doors, glazing and a roller shutter to the ground floor shop fronts, (c) removal and replacement of all existing windows to the first floor with upgraded window sections, (d) removal of the existing render and exposing the red brick to the first floor of 124 Cork Street, (e) repositioning of new windows and backlit signage to the first floor of no. 124 Cork Street, (f) all ancillary site wortks to facilitate the development.

Planning permission for development at this site at a Ground Floor Retail Unit, The Loom, Cork Street, Dublin 8. The proposed development will consist of the change of use of the c. 113.6 sqm unit from ‘retail/enterprise’ to ‘café/restaurant’ and signage zone (c. 3.03 sqm).