{"id":290786,"date":"2026-02-10T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290786\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:31:09","slug":"kennedy-wilson-plans-for-stephens-green-delayed-by-fresh-appeal-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290786\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Wilson plans for Stephen\u2019s Green delayed by fresh appeal \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans by the Irish arm of US property giant Kennedy Wilson<\/a> for a nine-storey \u201cworld-class, mixed-use, office-led campus\u201d at St Stephen\u2019s Green<\/a> in Dublin with the capacity to accommodate more than 3,000 office workers<\/a> have been delayed by a fresh appeal.<\/p>\n

This follows An Taisce<\/a> lodging an appeal with An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la<\/a> against the grant of permission issued by Dublin City Council<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

An Taisce did not object when the scheme was before the council as the council didn\u2019t refer the application to An Taisce, which is recognised as a prescribed body under planning legislation where it must be notified by councils of certain planning applications.<\/p>\n

In the appeal, Kevin Duff of An Taisce\u2019s planning unit and An Taisce\u2019s heritage officer, Ian Lumley, said they were appealing \u201con the grounds of location sensitivity\u201d as the application warranted referral by the council to An Taisce under planning regulations and no such referral was issued.<\/p>\n

Last month, the council granted permission to Kennedy Wilson Investment Funds ICAV for revisions to its original office scheme that was granted planning permission at Stokes Place three years ago. <\/p>\n

At the time, An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la granted planning permission to Kennedy Wilsonto demolish an existing office complex at Stokes Place facing on to St Stephen\u2019s Green and Harcourt Street<\/a>, and the construction of an eight-storey office block.<\/p>\n

In the new revised scheme the council has granted planning permission to add a ninth floor to the scheme and architects for the proposal Allford Hall Monaghan Morris said the scheme was \u201ca landmark piece of architecture\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, in their seven-page appeal, Mr Duff and Mr Lumley stated that the proposed amendments above what had already been permitted did not represent a sensitive approach to the site and its various aspects, including views and vistas, prevailing building heights, adjacent protected structures and the overall setting on a major Georgian city square.<\/p>\n

They said: \u201cWe do not consider that there is a basis for remedying the multiple adverse impacts of the proposal by condition or by revised plans. Accordingly, it is therefore recommended that planning permission be refused.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appeal said the proposal materially contravened the Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 and contravene the provisions of the Department of Heritage<\/a>\u2019s architectural heritage protection guidelines for planning authorities in relation to development affecting the setting of protected structures.<\/p>\n

The proposal in increasing the scale and impact of the permitted development would have an adverse impact on the views from along the southern side of St Stephen\u2019s Green, Mr Duff and Mr Lumley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans by the Irish arm of US property giant Kennedy Wilson for a nine-storey \u201cworld-class, mixed-use, office-led campus\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,86424,72,20733,12466,615,13288,4507,77671,61,60,83768,54318,45546],"class_list":{"0":"post-290786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-coimisiun-pleanala","9":"tag-an-taisce","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-commercial-real-estate","12":"tag-department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage","13":"tag-dublin","14":"tag-dublin-city-council","15":"tag-dublin-2","16":"tag-harcourt-street","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-kennedy-wilson","20":"tag-office-working","21":"tag-st-stephen-s-green"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290786","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=290786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}