A residents group in the Thomas Street area of Dublin 8 believe that the area is over-saturated by hotels and the more lands being swallowed up by hotels only exacerbates the housing situation for residents.<\/p>\n
Bridgefoot Street Residents Association and Bridgefoot Street Youth Group have lodged an objection against plans for a an 80 bedroom aparthotel by Welthomas Property Ltd for 144 Thomas Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel that the proposals will overshadow our housing complex that already has another student accommodation overshadowing our community and it will be also infringing on residents privacy,\u201d the group says in its objection.<\/p>\n
In a separate submission, Sinn F\u00e9in TD M\u00e1ire Devine has asked the council \u201cto be cognisant of the oversaturation of hotels\/apart hotels\/co-living and student accommodation in the Liberties\u201d. <\/p>\n
Devine said \u201cthis is additional transient accommodation while many of the local population are unable to secure a place to live\u201d.<\/p>\n
There \u201chas and continues to be a negative impact from these type of developments on the established community,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Councillor Ciar\u00e1n \u00d3 Meachair of Sinn F\u00e9in told the council that there is already a complete overabundance of aparthotels and short-term rental properties in this area. <\/p>\n
\u00d3 Meachair said that one aparthotel provider alone already has four premises in Dublin 8. <\/p>\n
Social Democrat councillor Lesley Byrne warned that \u201capproving an additional hotel would risk oversupply, undermine local planning balance, and displace opportunities for more needed residential or community-focused development\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a planning report lodged with the application, Declan Brassil & Co state that the proposals comprehensively address the reasons for refusal cited by both the Council and the An Coimi\u00fasiun Plean\u00e1la for a part seven storey scheme in 2024.<\/p>\n
The planning report states that the scheme \u201cproposes the regeneration of a vacant, urban infill, brownfield site\u201d.<\/p>\n
The report states that the site \u201cis currently used as a surface car park representing a highly inefficient and unsustainable use of a scarce land resource in the inner-city\u201d. <\/p>\n
The report states that the proposal \u201crepresents a significant opportunity to deliver a high quality inner-city regeneration scheme that will contribute to the vibrancy and mix of uses provided and emerging on other significant urban regeneration projects in the vicinity, while delivering tourism, economic and added regeneration benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A residents group in the Thomas Street area of Dublin 8 believe that the area is over-saturated by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,63274,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-337868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin-8","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337868","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=337868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}