{"id":206362,"date":"2025-12-23T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:01:13","slug":"popular-carlow-hotel-seeks-planning-permission-for-major-revamp-amid-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206362\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Carlow hotel seeks planning permission for major revamp amid name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Woodford Dolmen Hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlowlive.ie\/section\/793\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlow<\/a> has sought planning permission for a major revamp of the building while also making a slight change to its name.<\/p>\n<p>Planning permission has been sought to demolish a two-storey section of the hotel, two stairwells, and the arch gateway to the South of the hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A three-storey extension with 42 rooms and a leisure centre, gym, spa, treatment rooms, changing rooms, a caf\u00e9\/reception area, and function\/meeting rooms would replace it, if permission is granted.<\/p>\n<p>A proposed roof garden and terrace area has also been mentioned in the application along with a revised layout for the car park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlowlive.ie\/news\/home\/1971663\/carlow-teen-nearly-died-on-flight-after-selfish-passenger-ignored-safety-alert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlow teen &#8216;nearly died&#8217; on flight after &#8216;selfish&#8217; passenger &#8216;ignored&#8217; safety alert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upgraded car park would feature 192 standard spaces, 14 accessible spaces, four electric vehicle charging spaces, 48 ducted electric vehicle charging spaces, and three bus set-down areas.<\/p>\n<p>Some changes to the inside of the hotel would need to be made as well in order to facilitate the proposed development.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel has also legally changed its name to &#8216;The Woodford Dolmen Hotel Limited.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The application was submitted to Carlow County Council on December 10th and a decision will be made by mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody opposed to the changes can make submissions to the Council up until January 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Woodford Dolmen Hotel in Carlow has sought planning permission for a major revamp of the building while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,16665,59043,61,60,2549],"class_list":["post-206362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-carlow","tag-carlow-county-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-planning-permission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}