{"id":434288,"date":"2026-05-06T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434288\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:18:09","slug":"plans-to-be-lodged-for-223-bedroom-hotel-in-rathmines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434288\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to be lodged for 223-bedroom hotel in Rathmines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans are to be lodged for a six-storey hotel scheme for Lower Rathmines Rd in Dublin 6, which will result in a 223-bedroom hotel.<\/p>\n

Giocoso UC is to lodge plans with Dublin City Council to extend and refurbish an existing apart-hotel at 121 to 125 Lower Rathmines Rd, Rathmines and the application is seeking to add 157 bedrooms to the 66 bedrooms already in place at the site.<\/p>\n

The statutory planning notice states that the hotel will be six storeys over a lower ground and as part of the application, Giocoso Ltd is seeking to demolish 4,218 square metres of floor area and refurbish 2,332 square metres.<\/p>\n

The notice states that the total floor area to be extended is 7,626 square metres and involves the construction of a new six-storey hotel over a lower ground floor extension with setbacks at fourth and fifth floor levels.<\/p>\n

The planned new hotel coincides with Dublin City Council giving the go-ahead for a separate 267-bedroom hotel for Balmoral Land Beresford Ltd at Beresford Street, Dublin 7, as part of a mixed use scheme.<\/p>\n

The application by Balmoral Land Beresford Ltd rises to 12 storeys in height and also includes 191 apartments and the provision of a new public plaza to the southeast corner of the site at the junction of Mary’s Lane and George’s Hill.<\/p>\n

The council has granted planning permission despite the objections of a number of locals and a local primary school.<\/p>\n

In giving the project the go-ahead, the council concluded that the delivery of residential (and employment) development on this highly accessible , underutilised, serviced brownfield site, in a compact form would be consistent with policies and intended outcomes of current Government policy.<\/p>\n

The council also found that the planned 12 storey height is appropriate to the site and area and allows for a suitable higher inner city density of development that will represent an efficient use of scarce zoned and serviced urban land.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the Board of Management of Presentation Primary School George’s Hill, Halston Street, Dublin 7, School Principal, Lorraine Hession stated that the proposed 6-12 storey building, positioned in extremely close proximity to the school, gives rise to serious concerns regarding overlooking.<\/p>\n

Hession told the council that this proximity \u201cplaces children, some as young as three years old, in full view of residential units and vice versa\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hession said that \u201csuch a relationship is incompatible with the location of a primary school, raises profound child protection and safeguarding issues, and creates an unacceptable loss of privacy for pupils and staff\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hession said that these issues \u201cmust be addressed as a matter of priority\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Hession contended that the Board of Management emphasises that inner-city children \u201care entitled to look outside and see the sky, and the proposed massing will materially diminish this basic environmental quality\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said that the school \u201cis located in a dense urban area, but the proposed height represents a substantial and damaging increase in overshadowing beyond what can reasonably be expected in a city centre setting\u201d.<\/p>\n

Local resident, Anthony Lynam said that the area \u201calready has numerous existing hotels including recent new developments of hotels\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThis is a complete over-saturation of this type of accommodation in the area. Locating a hotel so close to residential properties would add to the noise and transient activity in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans are to be lodged for a six-storey hotel scheme for Lower Rathmines Rd in Dublin 6, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-434288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434288","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=434288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}