Planning precedent report

Installation of external insulation with smooth render finish to front & gable Facade. Ground floor & first floor rear extension with flat roofs over. Window in gable wall at first floor level.

The development will consist of a single storey garden room/storage shed (approx. 30m²) to rear garden of existing 2 storey dwelling and all associated site development works.

Extension and alterations to 2 storey dwelling: (1) demolition of single storey conservatory to rear; (2) replacement with part single storey with flat roof (approx. 32sq.m) and part 2 storey extension with hipped roof (approx. 9.7sq.m) to rear; (3) internal alterations and all associated site development works.

Construction of a single storey domestic concrete shed within the rear garden of dwelling; construction of a dormer roof and window in hip of roof level, including dormer roof and window in rear slope of roof.

Mixed use development consisting of 44 no. residential units and 6 no. commercial units in 3 no. blocks as follows, (A) Block V1 accommodates 16 no. units consisting of 8 no. two bed ground floor apartments & 8 no. three bed duplex units at first and second floor level, (B) Block V2 accommodates 1 no. coffee shop and 1 no. local scale shop at ground floor level and 12 no. apartments at first, second & third floor levels consisting of 6 no. one bed apartments and 6 no. two bedroom apartments, (C) Block V3 accommodates 4 no. local scale shops at ground floor level and 16 no. apartments at first, second and third floor levels consisting of 6 no. one bed apartments, 6 no. two bedroom apartments and 4 no. three bed duplex apartments, (D) Undercroft car parking, bin storage, bike storage, landscaping & planting, outfall drainage and all associated site development works.

Demolition of 3 existing structures on site (total c.226sq.m) comprising of 1 habitable house and 2 associated outbuildings/sheds (permitted under Ref. ABP-305343-19), and the construction of 1 double storey (c.9.2m overall height) retail development in the form of a convenience supermarket (GFA c.1,759sq.m); 1 two storey mixed-use building (c.10.7m overall height) comprising of a café (c.225sq.m) at ground floor and a community centre at the first floor (c.140sq.m) with associated ground floor access (total GFA c.468sq.m); an ESB sub-station (c.22sq.m); the anchor supermarket unit will provide for a net retail sales area of c.1,222sq.m; a warehouse of c.200sq.m; welfare area of c.190sq.m including ancillary office accommodation; a delivery and loading dock; service yard; customer lobby and wc and entrance lobby; the development shall also provide for 98 car parking spaces and 50 bicycle parking spaces; advertising structures and signage (totalling c.81sq.m); new pedestrian and cyclist connections; public realm areas; refuse storage; a trolley shelter; new priority controlled junction at Main Street; a new access road and shared pedestrian/cyclist greenlink from Main Street (permitted under Ref. ABP-305343-19); vehicular entrances to the surface car park and service yard; all associated site development, site services and landscape works at Lands at Main Street, Newcastle, Co. Dublin, bordered by Main Street to the north, Orchard Grove to the east, greenfield land to the south and residential properties fronting Main Street to the west (new road will be adjacent to 1 Main Street, Newcastle, Co. Dublin.)