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The proposed hotel on the corner of Dame Street and Eustace Street<\/p>\n
Dublin City Council has granted planning permission to one of the country\u2019s best-known publicans, Tom Cleary, for a new hotel in Dublin\u2019s Temple Bar area. <\/p>\n
Mr Cleary is the owner of The Temple Bar in Dublin city centre. The council has granted planning permission to Mr Cleary\u2019s Chambers Properties Ltd for a 43-bedroom hotel facing on to Dame Street and Eustace Street.<\/p>\n
Chambers Properties Ltd\u2019s scheme involves the change of use of a building known as the Shamrock Chambers which is currently a five-storey over-\u00adbasement building comprising a vacant restaurant, shop and vacant office. It is set to become a six-storey hotel.<\/p>\n
The ground floor of the new scheme \u2013 numbers 59, 60 and 61 Dame Street and numbers 1 and 2 Eustace Street \u2013 is to provide a retail\/cafe floor space.<\/p>\n
The decision reverses a refusal \u00adissued by An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la in October 2024. It had ruled the scheme\u2019s roof \u00adextension was of excessive height, scale and massing and would have a negative effect on the character and appearance of the host building, which is of heritage value, the visual amenity of the surrounding conservation area and the streetscape on Dame Street.<\/p>\n
However, in response to the revised scheme for the hotel, which omits four bedrooms from the 2024 proposal, the council\u2019s planner\u2019s report stated: \u201cThe revised design of the new fifth floor \u00adlevel integrates more appropriately with both the building and the streetscape.\u201d<\/p>\n
The council received one third-\u00adparty submission which objected to the scheme.<\/p>\n
Edward Kenny, a resident on North Great George\u2019s Street, said the proposed change of use to a hotel \u201cwill lead to an over-concentration of hotels and aparthotels in the local area and a lack of variety of uses in the vicinity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Urging the council to refuse planning permission, Mr Kenny said there is a strong demand for housing in the Dublin city area and the subject site is a prime city centre site. Given its \u00adlocation and layout, he said: \u201cIt could be used for residential development which is badly needed in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Associate at Thornton O\u2019Connor Town Planning, Daniel Moody, told the council on behalf of the applicant that the design of the additional storey has been reconsidered by the design team and is a \u201csofter\u201d intervention that respects the scale and character of the existing development, as well as its position within a designated conservation area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposed hotel on the corner of Dame Street and Eustace Street Dublin City Council has granted planning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-379245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379245","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=379245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}