{"id":408783,"date":"2026-04-20T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:09:11","slug":"dublin-council-rejects-plan-to-convert-adelaide-road-office-for-international-protection-applicants-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408783\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin council rejects plan to convert Adelaide Road office for international protection applicants \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin City Council<\/a> has refused planning permission to convert an office building into a short-term let hostel for international protection (IP) applicants in Dublin 2.<\/p>\n

Peachport Ltd has earned millions in profits from State contracts providing emergency accommodation for international protection applicants<\/a> and Ukrainians<\/a>. In February it lodged plans for a change of use of an existing four-storey-over-basement building at Adelaide House on Adelaide Road in Dublin 2<\/a> from office use to short-term let hostel accommodation.<\/p>\n

The firm was also seeking planning retention for material alterations already made to the building.<\/p>\n

The council refused planning permission on a number of grounds. It ruled the proposed internal configuration to facilitate 24 bedrooms, which would include a total of 116 beds, \u201cwould constitute gross overdevelopment of this site and considerably detract from the amenities of existing and adjoining properties\u201d.<\/p>\n

It also refused permission as the proposed use of the structure \u201cresults in a poorly configured layout with insufficient facilities for the number of bedspaces proposed\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe layout appears congested, providing poor levels of daylight and ventilation, in particular at basement level, resulting in an extremely poor level of residential amenity for future occupiers,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The planning authority also refused permission after concluding the applicant had not sufficiently demonstrated that the proposed development would not result in an over-concentration of similar uses within the vicinity and be consistent with the zoning objective of the subject site.<\/p>\n

The planner\u2019s report, which recommended a refusal, noted the submitted documentation lodged with the application was \u201cextremely poor in clarity of proposed and retained development\u201d. <\/p>\n

The most recent accounts for Peachport Ltd show that the firm\u2019s post-tax profits of \u20ac2.8 million for the 12 months to the end of February 2025 follow post-tax profits of \u20ac5.69 million for the previous year.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0More than 1,300 who left direct provision in last two years sought emergency accommodationOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Peachport\u2019s work in providing emergency accommodation for a number of years for the State has resulted in it having accumulated profits of \u20ac11.7 million at the end of February 2025, while its cash funds totalled \u20ac8.55 million.<\/p>\n

Local residents William Phelan and Haiyan Wang of nearby Harcourt Terrace called on the council to refuse permission for \u201cthe proposed very high-density accommodation at this location\u201d.<\/p>\n

Another Harcourt Terrace resident, Pat Whyte, told the council: \u201cI am deeply concerned about the scale and nature of this proposed hostel development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin City Council has refused planning permission to convert an office building into a short-term let hostel for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4507,61,60],"class_list":["post-408783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dublin-2","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408783","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=408783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}